We begin the semester with the reading by C.S. Lewis in Devotional Classics (p.7). I invite you to read these four pages and post your responses at any time. I aways offer a few questions to get things started (answer any question/s you like)---but truly, if you want to speak to something else in the passage, feel free! All visitors to this blog are welcome to join.
Lewis asks the question, "How much of myself must I give to Christ?" What is his answer?
Have you ever sought---or experienced---complete surrender to Christ? Describe that.
Do you question or disagree with anything Lewis says here? Why?
When I read these pages, I really respond to section 6, in which Lewis describes how, upon awakening, "All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind." This description of spiritual life seems very true to me.
Which part of the C.S. Lewis reading is meaningful to you?
For Sept. 14: Dallas Willard, p. 13 of Devotional Classics. Complete schedule
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Questions or need help commenting? email me at karen@theologicalhorizons.org
VINTAGE is an offering of Theological Horizons
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