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Mere Christianity - Week 2

March 8th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

This week the Christian Book Club will be reading “Book 2 - What Christians Believe”.

Lewis says that repentance “means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death” (p. 57). Real repentance has to do with dealing with our selfishness. Again, I think our culture has taught us that we need to always be looking out for number one. How do we embrace the idea that this selfish part of us has to die. How does this tie in to the death of Christ on the cross?

CS also has a great analogy about how Christians see good on page 63. “…the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life within 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”. What other analogies have you read so far in the book that you have enjoyed?