Francis Schaeffer was one of three writers (the others being Lewis and Tozer) who influenced me most profoundly when I was a new believer in the early 1970’s. I remember like it was yesterday reading his The Church Before the Watching World, where he said this:

When those who claim to be God’s people turn aside from the Word of God and from the Christ of history, this is more heinous in the sight of God than the worst case of infidelity in marriage, for it destroys the reality, the great central bridegroom-bride relationship. I have taken care to emphasize that God does not minimize promiscuity in sexual relationships, but apostasy – spiritual adultery – is worse. And the modern liberal theologian is in that place. How do we look at it? I would suggest we must be careful to look at it no less clearly than God does. Consider the liberal theology of our day. It denies the personal God who is there. It denies the divine historic Christ. It denies the Bible as God’s verbalized Word. It denies God’s way of salvation. The liberals elevate their own humanistic theories to a position above the Word of God, the revealed communication of God to men. They make gods which are no gods, but are merely the projection of their own minds.

—Francis A. Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World, p 53.

Also, I wanted to share some information about a webcast with Chuck Colson that will be taking place this weekend at various locations:

The Colson Center for Christian Worldview has created a video series called Doing the Right Thing. It is a compelling call to America to rebuild its ethical foundations and to teach how moral character is formed.

On September 24, thousands of people from all over the United States will tune in to a live webcast of Doing the Right Thing, a discussion of the ethical crisis our country faces and what’s to be done about it.

This is a movement of God's people to transform the culture—a movement that you can be a part of.

To film Doing the Right Thing, Chuck Colson—along with Brit Hume of FOX News, Dr. Robert George of Princeton, and a distinguished panel—sat down in front of an audience of students at Princeton University and a top-notch film crew.  What resulted was a riveting exploration of ethics, ranging from the sanctity of life to business to divine revelation.

The video covers areas such as how we can know truth . . . integrity in the public arena . . . business ethics . . . the sanctity of human life . . . and more.

The video series will be simulcast on Saturday, September 24, 2011, across the country.  As you watch the video, you will also see on-location interviews with other leading figures such as Joni Eareckson Tada, Ben Stein, Alveda King (niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and others who lead the viewer to the validity—in fact, the necessity—of the biblical worldview.

Click here to see the complete list of host locations for this seminar.