C.S. Lewis once purposed that Christianity on Earth is like a great big house with a great hall that leads to different rooms representing various aspects of faith. It is in these rooms that Christians live out there faith with other believers. It is in the halls that we gather with other believers who do not do life in our rooms.
Lewis believed that there were core doctrines and praxis that defined Christianity. He believed that all true Christians believed certain universals. In this sense we all came in to Christianity by Christ who is the metaphorical door we all had to enter in by. Yet once through that door is the great hall and there we congregate on our way to our own particular rooms.
Lewis borrowed the idea of mere Christian from the great Reformed divine Richard Baxter who first popularized the term. Baxter believed that to be a mere Christian was not to find the lowest common denominator but to find the sum of what it meant to be a real Christian.
I purpose that we live as mere Christians by embracing and humbly proclaiming a more Christianity view. This will be formidable in our day of non-denominational rootless and heritage free Christianity. Many Christians and Christian based cults are divorced from Christendom. They see it as a hated oppressor of true faith. This must change.
I am going to begin a series of blog post on More Christianity that embraces the history of the Church. This will be a lot of thinking out loud. Feel free to comment. I hope you do.
Posted on willadair.com
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