Friday, July 08, 2011

Schaeffer: communion is internal

...we must understand that the reality of communion with God, and loving God, must take place in the inward self...Even communication with men and women must be through the body into the area of the thought-world...a real, personal communication never remains external.  It always goes back into the personality...Thus real communication with man and love of man centres in our thought-world.  The results may be external, and the expression may be external, but the love is internal.  the same is true in our love for God...

the facts of the gospel in the external world [are] carried through the medium of his body into the inner world of his thoughts, and there, inside himself, inside his thought-world, either his believing God on the basis of the content of the gospel or his calling God a liar....

TS, p106

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