Francis Schaeffer: A Personal Tribute

In this post I want to talk about how Francis Schaeffer impacted my own life, anyone who has heard me preach will know that Schaeffer is the most influential person in my life. so this is my story.

I became a Christian in 1969 and I had been very involved in the New Left, as a Christian I had many questions about philosophy and politics but no answers. But then one day in 1970 in Luton Library I came across the L’Abri Story by Edith Schaeffer as soon as I read this I knew that I needed to read her husband’s books. I then discovered on my next visit to the Library “Escape from Reason” and “Death in the City” I read these two books and realized that there were answers to my questions. Later that year I was in a bookshop in London and I purchased “The God Who…

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David Rollings was born in Luton in1949 and raised by my Christian parents in the Gospel Standard Strict Baptist denomination( Hyper-Calvinistic} in the sixties I rebelled against this background and got involved in left-wing politics. I became a Christian in 1969 and soon started reading Francis Schaeffer's books and came to embrace a Christian Worldview. I had the privilege of being on the staff of L'Abti Fellowship from1975 - 1979. After L'abri I studied at London School of Theology where I gained my BA.(1983) A few years later I studied for my MA by distance learning with The Nazarene Theological College Manchester (1999) For the last 25 years, I have been an elder of Shoreham-by-Sea Baptist Church. I also regularly attend the Christian Doctrine Study Group of the Tyndale Fellowship.

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