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HOW DOES FRANCIS SCHAEFFER RELATE TO THE MARINES?

Perhaps only that his grandson became one…...

Francis Schaeffer wrote a LOT OF BOOKS about modern culture and a Christian worldview, including THE GOD WHO IS THERE. He was a missionary to Switzerland, and established L’ABRI FELLOWSHIP, which still operates study centers around the world.

His son, Frank Schaeffer, was the youngest child and only boy, with three older sisters who appeared to join the parents in spoiling him pretty thoroughly.

UPDATE: You would do well to read SCHAEFFER’S OTHER BOOKS about military service - for those who serve, as well as for those on the home front. Most of us, in the days of the volunteer military, are seriously out of touch with what it’s like for those on whom we depend for our liberty. The least we owe them is awareness.

Young Frank was hardly a Christian, not to speak of the rather severe Calvinist that his father was. He met his girlfriend when she came to his father’s retreat with her older sister, and then proceeded to impregnate and then marry her when they were still teenagers. By the time he was 28 years old and with two children, he was thoroughly European in outlook, moving to the United States purely for career reasons, because he wanted to direct movies.
And then his youngest son, John, was born.

John was an American boy who knew very little as he neared the end of high school, but he knew he wanted self-discipline. So he joined the Marines, something simply not understood in the communities of which the Schaeffers were a part. As John’s boot camp experience proceeded, the distance that had begun to separate the father and the son was overcome, and they collaborated on a BOOK ABOUT THEIR JOINT EXPERIENCE OF JOHN’S TRAINING. It’s the surprising story of three transformations - that of an aimless child into a man, that of a typical aging baby-boomer into someone who has learned the value of the gifts he has been given, and that of a father-son relationship that is back on track.

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