{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Strength and beauty: Francis Schaeffer and the church that captivates","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2136,"description":"Francis Schaeffer hoped the church would be a thing of strength and beauty. Stu isn't sure his friends would have used those words to describe the churches they grew up in. That gap, between what the church is and what it could be, is what drove everything Soul Revival tried to build.\n\nThey open up Schaeffer's 1968 The God Who Is There that turned up on the podcast studio bookshelf. Schaeffer's ministry at L'Abri. The Trinity as the foundation of love. Jesus's words to the Samaritan woman at the well. The Great Evangelical Disaster and why Schaeffer feared the West was hollowing out the gospel. And what it looks like to be a custodian of a community shaped by that gospel rather than by the culture surrounding it.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome — Stu's 10th year as Cronulla Sharks chaplain and the finals\n02:00 A first edition Schaeffer on the podcast studio shelf\n03:30 Francis Schaeffer and L'Abri — a shelter for questions in Switzerland\n06:00 How Schaeffer shaped Stu's ministry — truth demonstrated as well as debated\n08:30 The God Who Is There — why God exists even when culture turns its back\n10:00 Is God Dead? — the 1964 Time magazine cover\n11:30 The adequate universal for love — Schaeffer's argument from the Trinity\n14:00 Love between the persons of the Trinity before creation\n16:00 Jesus as the only way back into that relationship\n18:00 The church as strength and beauty — and whether our friends would agree\n20:00 The church is where the action is — not the pub, the sporting club or the concert\n22:00 The Great Evangelical Disaster — Schaeffer's fear for the West\n25:00 Three principles for evangelicalism — doctrine, practice and corporate exhibition\n28:00 The commitments culture as custodians of the gospel\n31:00 Galatians and keeping the main thing the main thing\n32:30 Larry Norman, one way and the Jesus movement\n34:00 Preview — the lost episode on commitments culture returns next week\nDiscussed on this episode\nFrancis Schaeffer - The God Who Is There\nFrancis...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}