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Divine Conspiracy
by Dallas Willard is nutritious brain food for thinking Christians.
Dr. Willard is an ordained Southern Baptist clergyman on the faculty
of the Philosophy department of the University of Southern California.
The Divine Conspiracy is his contemporary and thoughtful understanding
of Christ's Sermon on the Mount. To get your copy click The Divine Conspiracy : Rediscovering...
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Clinton McLemore explores the connection between psychological honesty
and spiritual growth. A clinical psychologist, he views sin as the refusal
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Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis has been the most influential book in the
conversion of more thinking people than any other written in the
20th century. Writing with reason, imagination and wit, this
professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Oxford and
Cambridge addresses two of our greatest needs: clarifying
Christianity and uniting Christians. The basis of our unity is not
the lowest common denominator, but our common love and obedience
to Jesus Christ.
In the Preface
Lewis writes:
I hope that no reader
will suppose that "mere" Christianity is here put
forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions
-- as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism
or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else. It is more like a hall out of
which doors open into several rooms. If I can bring anyone into
that hall I shall have done what I attempted. But it is in the
rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals.
The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the
various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose, the worst
of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable. It
is true that some people may find that they have to wait in the
hall for a considerable time, while others feel almost at once
which door they must knock at. I do not know why there is this
difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He
sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room,
you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good
which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as
waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and
of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the
rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must
be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
by its paint and paneling. In plain language, the question should
never be: "Do I like that kind of service?" but
"Are the doctrines true; Is holiness here? Does my conscience
move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due
to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of the this
particular door-keeper?"
When you have chosen
your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors
and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong, they
need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then
you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules
common to the whole house.
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