Schaeffer addresses many aspects of the church, Christian culture, liberalism, and their interactions, and a succinct review is difficult in this arena. Schaeffer urges the church to live in real community grounded in truth in order to minister to the secular culture surrounding the church. A disturbing observation Schaeffer makes (that I would agree with) is that the church seems to follow closely behind in adopting political or humanistic ideals, words, and thoughts. This has turned the church into a political organization rather than grounded in Scriptural truth. Schaeffer says:

When the young people say to us, "I hate god words," if we are to be Christians we must say, "I hate god words too." For such god words are separated from all verification and falsification; they can be made to mean anything. The new theologians seem to be saying something more than secular thinkers are saying because they use such religious words. But they are really saying the same things with a different set of linguistic symbols. There is many a liberal theologian today who uses the word God to equal no god -- to give optimism in what is to him a totally pessimistic predicament, using words only as psychological tools to give psychological help or to aid in sociological manipulation…Unless we see the new liberalism as a whole and reject it as a whole, we will, to the extent that we are tolerant of it, be confused in our thinking, involved in the general intellectual irrationalism of our day and compromising in our actions. ( )