Lord Heroin is my shepherd,
I shall always want,
He maketh me to lie down in the gutters
He leadeth me beside the troubled waters
He destroyeth my soul.
This is an anonymous poem, quoted by Francis Schaeffer (The God Who Is There [Downers Grove, 111: Inter-Varsity, 1968], p. 29).
2. Teaches One Thing, Practices Another
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Francis Schaeffer
John Cage, a contemporary American composer, believes that the universe is impersonal by nature and that it originated only through pure chance. In an attempt to live consistently with this personal philosophy, Cage composes all of his music by various means of chance. He uses, among other things, the tossing of coins and the rolling of dice to make sure that no personal element enters into the fi...
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
