LIVING READY

Enjoying the simplicity of Mere Christianity.

 

Even though Mere Christianity was born from a series of radio lectures that C.S. Lewis gave during World War II, it's amazing how fresh his writings are today. Here are a couple excerpts that we will be discussing this week:

 

"Because decisions compound on each other, each decision is important. A decision to trust God now may put your heart in a condition to make a much bigger decision later on. Likewise refusing to trust God now may cause a greater failure later. Our character is the sum of our decisions."  (at our church we call this "living ready today for whatever is coming tomorrow")

 

"Loving your enemy is not feeling fond of him, or thinking he is good when he is not. It is wishing for his good."

 

"Although people readily recognize the need to have harmony between individuals, this cannot happen if we have not corrected what is inside of us, which cannot happen until we realize that we are not the owners of our souls".

 

"Christians is different than all other religions. All other religions are about people being good to try to please God. The Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him.  He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”

 

"And when we have this new life, we are responsible for caring and nurturing it. Just as we have to care for and nurture our physical lives, we have to care for and nurture this new Spiritual life." 

 

Click HERE for a video summarizing this C.S. Lewis book.  

 

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