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Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality -

Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth.

Francis Schaeffer
Religious, Biblical, Reality

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Communication, Reality
Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.78, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Christian, Reality
Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

Francis Schaeffer
Spiritual, Reality, Men

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Reality, Calling
Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.135, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Reality, Ideas
Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.49, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really lives in the Christian. Christ lives in me. The Christ who was crucified, the Christ whose work is finished, the Christ who is glorified now, has promised (John 15) to bring forth fruit in the Christian, just as the sap of the vine brings forth the fruit in the branch.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Christian, Reality
Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.92, NavPress

Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

Francis Schaeffer
God, Jesus, Reality

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