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Mere Christianity - Week 3

March 15th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Week three in the Christian Book Club brings us to “Book 3 - Christian Behaviour”. CS ends chapter 5 with an interesting statement: “…a cold self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute” (p. 103). Lewis obviously believes that spiritual sin is worse than sins of the flesh. How do you feel about that?

On page 121 Lewis sees pride as “the utmost evil”. Why is pride such a huge problem for the Christian?

Do you think CS Lewis is doing a good job in presenting Christianity in a way that unbelievers might get it?

I like what Lewis says about love on page 131; “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did…. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him”.

In the chapter on Hope CS talks about people who reject the Christian idea of heaven as spending eternity playing harps. What do you think heaven will be like?