Last Sunday

We had a good discussion in the Sheepfold small group setting last Sunday about religions, specifically the statement used by some that "all religions are the same". It reminded me about an old post I did, and I shared some C.S. Lewis with the group, via some ideas from the book Mere Christianity. Here's the post I did when I was reading that book.

Thoughts for the day...

I gotta give a shout out to kb for puttin me on to the C. S. Lewis "Mere Christianity". for those of us who claim Christianity, it is an awesome book to reaffirm what we believe using a common sense approach. and for those who think Christianity is nonsense, i dare you to read it...i think it would cause you to think again. i just want to put a little bit of the book here for you to think about.

"Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us a chance of joining His side freely...God will invade. but i wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When it happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what good is saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered into your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to the others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side...That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it."

Basically, this is saying there will be a time where all will know, with no doubt, who the true God is. And at that time, you will also know what side you are on. I'm glad to know the true God now, and have a relationship with him.