sweet & low

so i'm reading this book by cs lewis called screwtape letters. i'm on letter twenty-five. in it screwtape tells his nephew this:

"... what we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind i call 'Christianity And'. you know - Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Chrstianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Chrsitianity and the Spelling Reform. if they must be Christians let them at least be Christians with a difference. substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring..."

i found that last bit really kind of convicting. 'substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring.'

you know, i think that if we just read scripture the way it was, without trying to translate it into having a deeper or different meaning than it really had, we would be so much better off.

we're always trying to say what we think God meant by things, when really, what Jesus said is so plain and simple.

i'm tired of christian groups. everyone being separate. no unity in the body of Christ. how do we expect to win lives for Jesus, when there is a different color of christianity for everyone. the underlying theme amongst all of christianity should be to love the Lord our God.

yes, i understand, there are churches that sit differently with all types - but i suppose the fact that there is enables the "i want this, i want that" attitude amongst believers.

we're not happy to be challenged in the word of God. we have to have christianity and. christianity and coffee. christianity and a pastor that sticks with comfortable scriptures that don't encourage us to break barriers, feed the homeless, heal the sick, love the unloveable.

let us not substitute faith for a color of Christianity, but be radical for the cause of Christ.