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Study Section 12: Heroes from 1912 - 1917

12.1 Connect.

Remember when we were children, someone would ask us what we want to be when we grow up.
I wanted to be a doctor. My friends wanted to be a fireman or a football player. Of course, most
children don’t end up becoming what they had in mind at that early age. God seems to direct us in
our various paths along the way of life. Maybe when their parents asked Francis Schaeffer or
Darlene Diebler Rose this questions, they answered, “I want to change the course of history and
bring many to Christ” because that is exactly what they did. Let’s examine these two people’s lives
and see how God used them to change history….

12.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to describe the life Francis Schaeffer and how God used him to change
how the culture of his day thought and how he warned believers what will happen in the future if the
philosophy of his day were to continue.

2. The student should be able to describe the life of Darlene Diebler Rose who was faithful to share Christ in
New Guinea.

12.3 Francis Schaeffer 1912 – 1984 By ITW Staff

http://www.churchleadership.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=42392&

Francis Schaeffer was a pioneer in the field of apologetics and the development
of a Christian response to the anti-supernaturalism which dominated western
th
thought in the 20 century. He worked out a biblical and evangelical
philosophy which proved to be a challenging alternative to emptiness and
despair which characterized secular Europe at that time. Schaeffer also
understood that the cultural shift was especially reflected in the arts and was able to help a
number of us who were trying to develop a Christian approach to creativity in these
influential areas of life.

Here, Ray Evans, of Grace Community Church, Bedford, provides us with a brief overview of Schaeffer's
contribution to Christian thought and action.

Francis Schaeffer became one of the most influential Christian leaders of the twentieth century. He came from a
humble working-class background in Philadelphia, studied under Gresham Machen at Westminster Seminary for
a while, was the pastor of some small churches in the USA, and then spent most of his life in Europe, to which he
had come at the end of World War 2 as a missionary. Never seeking 'fame' or 'a name', God used him to help his
church at a time when she faced, and still faces, the massive challenges brought about wherever western culture
and 'worldview' have spread.

Married to Edith, and blessed with four children of their own, the Schaeffers settled in total obscurity in
Switzerland. Initially they lived at Champéry, but the Roman Catholic officials of that canton requested they
leave and they moved to what became their home for many years, the tiny village of Huémoz in the canton of

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