“There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.”

Martin Luther
(1483-1546; Germany)

 

 

“What one must realize is that seeing the world as a Christian does not mean just saying, ‘I am a Christian. I believe in the supernatural world,’ and then stopping. It is possible to be saved through faith in Christ and then spend much of our lives in the materialist’s chair. We can say we believe in a supernatural world, and yet live as though there were no supernatural in the universe at all. It is not enough merely to say, ‘I believe in a supernatural world.’

Christianity is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, ‘I believe the food exists; I believe it is real,’ and yet never eating it.

It is not enough merely to say, ‘I am a Christian,’ and then in practice to live as if present contact with the supernatural were something far off and strange.

Many Christians I know seem to act as though they come in contact with the supernatural just twice—once when they are justified and become a Christian and once when they die. The rest of the time they act as though they were sitting in the materialist’s chair.”

Francis Schaeffer
(1912-1948; Pennsylvania)