Considering our (Missouri Baptist Convention’s) current struggles, I thought a little ‘Lewis’ (C.S. Lewis) would be helpful. Dealing with the value of reading old books, in his book entitled God in the Dock, Lewis points out, ‘We are all rightly distressed, and ashamed also, at the divisions of Christendom. But those who have always lived within the Christian fold may be too easily dispirited by them. They are bad, but such people do not know what it looks like from without. Seen from there, what is left intact, despite all the divisions, still appears (as truly it is) an immensely formidable unity.’ These words are encouraging.
I think C.S. Lewis observed what is often overlooked. Read the rest of this entry »