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Quote of the day:
"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” - C.S. Lewis
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Common themes run through the problems of Christianity and Lutheranism today. Too many leaders obsess about and idolize the following:
• Their synods and religious organizations
• Themselves and their efficacious efforts
• Money and what it means to their synods and their religions
• Church politics
As long as they refuse to admit their own sinfulness and trust in these things, nothing will improve – only get worse.
The Book of Concord and the confessions continue to fail with such deaf and blind leaders. They are weeds in a field of wheat ready for harvest. They detract from and attempt to overshadow the Word of God. They are hijacking Christianity as surely as radicals have hijacked Islam. Life is all about them and the rewards they deserve from God.
The biblical prescription is to harvest and burn them.
Wasn't C.S. Lewis a faithful Catholic? If he was he certainly was not talking about the Christianity of Scripture but of the Law encrusted works righteous false religion of Catholicism.
Why do so many people refer to religions, such as the Roman Catholicism, as Christian when if a person faithfully confesses the religion's or denomination's official doctrine they reject Justification by faith in Christ alone and dying in that confession they will spend eternity in Hell?
Lewis' friend Tolkien was a Roman Catholic. Lewis was a Calvinist. Lewis is not my favorite for quoting, but his statement here is fairly good.
Thank you for clarifying. I remember the local Lutheran (self sic) churches taking their teen groups to go see the Lion, Which and the Wardrobe. They were giddy with anticipation of seeing what they believed was a movie with a Christian message. Not one of them realized the false teaching that was blatant in the movie. For instance the Lion (their Christ) required the effort and belief of mankind in order to rise again to life. The Lutheran churches are trying so hard to be relational that they are grasping onto man's wisdom in order to appeal to the masses.
Another good one from C.S. Lewis:
"Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the questions 'What on earth is he up to now?' will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste." - Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer
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