C S Lewis Sunday School Class
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Transcript of C S Lewis Sunday School Class
The books that have influenced meCS Lewis
The coming weeks
Today – CS Lewis
Next week – Charles Page
August 2 – What’s So Amazing About Grace
August 9 – The Ragamuffin Gospel
August 16 – The New Creation
August 23 – The Rule of Benedict
August 30 – Celebration of Discipline
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
Hated his name
Jack
November 29, 1898 – 22 November 22, 1963
Brilliant
Medieval romantic poetry
Atheist for his early life
Why
Mother died at a young age
How? Why? He prayed and God did nothing
So, there must be no God, of if there is, He’s mean and evil
When through his young life like this
Solider in WWI
Schooling
Teaching – Oxford
Every loves Lewis
Catholic to Baptist
Big fan of alcohol and cigars
Catholic – high church The Creeds
Purgatory
BaptistsConversion
His Conversion
The Inklings
Met at pub – Eagle and Child “Bird and Baby”
Walked around campus talking
Nature of salvation and God
Went to the zoo, when he left he didn’t believe
When he arrived, he did
Christian Spokesman
During WWII – the two most famous voices were Churchill and Lewis
Began to write about his faith
Brilliant, but understandable
Looked down on in academic circles
But did more to spread the Gospel than most anyone
Particularly an intellectual educated understanding
Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity
Perhaps the most influential Christian book of 20th Century
First book I read after conversion
A statement of “Mere Christianity”
Basic faith and belief
Charles Colson’s Conversion
Mere Christianity
The Moral Law
Our yearning
"Lewis trilemma”either he really was Godwas deliberately lyingor was not God but thought himself to be (which would make him delusional and likely insane)
Christian BehaviorLove God and neighbor and self
QuotesMy argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But 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;
Screwtape Letters
Screwtape Letters
As complicated as MC is, this is easy and fun
Letters from a chief demon in hell (Screwtape) to his junior (Wormwood) on how to keep a Christian from growing
Great, great, great
QuotesThere are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.”
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
Pilgrims Regress
Pilgrim’s Regress
• Not as popular
• Terrible reading
• Don’t read it
• It’s awful
• But it tell his journey
Why then?• I like the idea of a journey
• It’s taken me a while to get to where I am in faith and what I believe
• I’ve struggle with faith
• Tried different things
• And I know now what I believe, sure of it
• Grace, mercy, peace
• God’s desire to change you, but in a graceful way
Lewis Struggled till finding faith
• I understand that
• I appreciate that
• I’ve done that
• Most of us have
• This book tells that we are not alone