Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Keep it simple..


We read this quote by C.S. Lewis in our Sunday school class and I loved it..

"It is easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects- education, building, missions, holding services. Just as it is easy to think that the State has a lot of different objects- military, political, economic and what not.

But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

In the same way the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them like him. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time." (Selected from Mere Christianity for Devotional Classics)

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