BY DEMONSTRATION: GOD
Fifty years and a week at L’Abri
By Wade Bradshaw. Piquant (http://www.piquanteditions.com). 175 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 903689 33 3
‘L’Abri’ means ‘shelter’, a place where believers and non-believers alike can join others for a period of time to thrash out their understanding of how the God of the Bible relates to the real world that we live in. Many people get confused about the nature of L’Abri simply because it seems odd to go to a retreat centre in order to make sense of the world. Isn’t that just a neat excuse for escapism?
When Francis and Edith Schaeffer formed the L’Abri Fellowship in 1955, their vision was to ‘show forth by demonstration, in our lives and work, the existence of God’. They wanted to make sure that they were living out their faith in every area of their lives and wanted to help others to do the same.
