We are here dealing with presuppositions. We have an idea of how the world should be, and build accordingly. The world is not like that. Most people can handle only a small amount of truth. It is much easier to turn the music up, watch that movie, and not think.

The days of failing to confront Churchianity, Good Samaritanism, Equality in the Church, Refugeeism, and other false, heretical teachings that attempt to pass themselves off as What Jesus Would Do are over. They are branches severed from the tree and there is neither truth nor life in them. And far too many Christians need to be reminded of that.

Aslan is not a tame lion. The purpose of the Church is not to ensure that no one’s feelings are hurt.

Those of us who do think find it hurts. Because we have to see ourselves as we are. This is not pretty: we are not able to compare ourselves with God, and we cannot meet his standards.

One key element of Schaeffer’s work that I found especially influential was his apologetic method of “taking the roof off.” Schaeffer argued that a person’s worldview is similar to a house; however, there is only one blueprint that can effectively explain all aspects of life and be lived out consistently—a Christian worldview. All other worldviews are defective in one way or another.

Taking off someone’s roof involves exposing the weaknesses and inconsistencies of his worldview. This is a necessary but dangerous task. When a roof is removed, Schaeffer states that “each man must stand naked and wounded before the truth of what is.” The reality of the world in which we live comes flooding in. Therefore, we must carefully deconstruct the roof so that the house can be rebuilt with truth.

Once the roof is carefully removed and the individual has encountered reality, it is time to reconstruct his house. This is where the transformative power of the gospel comes into play. Schaeffer writes, “The truth that we let in first is not a dogmatic statement of the truth of the Scriptures, but the truth of the external world and the truth of what man himself is. This is what shows him his need. The Scriptures then show him the real nature of his lostness and the answer to it.”

One of the ideas behind the coming reformation of church is that we will accept the pain. We will see it as the cost of living truly. We will stop comforting those who do evil, and instead preach to them repentance. This will mean that we will take all ideologies and thoughts and destroy their assumptions. We will cling to the tested, and aviod the postmodern.

Let the people of this age deny there is an earth, as the moderns stood with their feet firmly in the air. We will ground ourselves on the rock, and seek truth, beauty, honour and those things of good repute.

And enjoy the hatred of our enemies.