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__**Introduction, Francis Schaeffer- How Should We Then Live?**__

to today's Christians and that is if we do not seek firm foundation as we navigate through culture, we too will suffer the same fate as the Roman Empire and fall. ||= media type="youtube" key="XjsGGlRKLi8" height="339" width="447" ||
 * = [[image:francis_schaeffer-1.jpg width="175" height="147" caption="Francis Schaeffer"]] ||||= **A discussion about the book "How Should We Then Live?" By Christian Author Francis A. Schaeffer and it's effects on the Christian in**
 * the contempory world...** ||
 * = [[image:how_should_we_then_live.jpg width="165" height="250"]] ||= I think this video displays Schaeffer's warning

"To understand where we are in today's world - in our intellectual ideas and in our cultural and political lives -- we must trace three lines in history, namely, the philosophic, the scientific, and the religious" (How Should We Then Live?, 11). This tracing the point of Schaeffer's book. He is looking at the foundations of modern culture to interpret the future path society might find itself traveling. I have interpreted the basic question of Schaeffer's book As this: **How does the Christian Church survive? How does it live on? Is it strong enough?** I believe the Christian church has many battles on its hands, to fight both inside its own borders and of course from the outside, but it is strong enough. The key to the church's strength will come from discipleship, the Word of God, prayer, and learning from tradition. The church must shore up its foundations built by the faithful from the time of the New Testament onward. One's worldview molds and shapes who they are and who they will become. Christians should live their lives out in a way that demonstrates that their is a God who is alive, who has spoken through the Bible; a God who gives "freedom from chaos" (22).