Collect Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories Of Encounters With C. S. Lewis Prepared By Mary Anne Phemister E-Text

considering this book is probably going to react the way I did, It was everything I hoped it might be, The individual reactions to C, S. were extremely interesting and profitable to read very enjoyable for someone who enjoys C, S. Lewis. The writers were varied in their personalities, occupations, and thoughts, I didn't find a dull page in the book, and I look forward to reading it again at some later point, Mere Christians is a valuable casebook of how C, S. Lewis, through his writing, changed people's lives, guiding them toward Christ in such a powerful way that many of them went on to become writers, teachers, pastors, missionaries sharing the Gospel with passion and humility.
What we have here is not a dry scholarly analysis of Lewis' work rather, we have fifty five different voices, giving testimony to the particular ways that Lewis spoke to them.
The range and variety of the pieces is significant: the contributors come from all walks of life, different professions, age groups, religious backgrounds, experiences.
Mere Christians helps us understand the power of Lewis as a communicator, He could communicate in a way that pointed readers and listeners unfailingly to Christ, making the truths of the faith so clear that the power of God could shine through into the lives of those who read his books.
For one thing, the sheer variety of responses should tell us something about Lewis' art of witness: that it is not "one size fits all.
" These accounts, and others like them, bring home an important insight for apologists: Reason and Imagination are allies, not opponents, as we seek to share the faith and to strengthen our own.
As Andrew Lazo says in his introduction, "I don't exaggerate in claiming that Lewis taught me how to think, In fact I gladly claim that when I was a child, Lewis sparked my imaginative life, and when I became a man, Lewis saved my intellectual life.
"Second, many of these accounts show the power of longing, Lewis is cited again and again as someone who awoke desire for God a desire that could only be satisfied by a real relationship with the Living God, not by anything in Lewis' own works.
Third, account after account references Lewis' honesty and clarity, He brings out the power of Christian truth in fresh, vibrant imagery not just recycling the tired tropes with the assumption that they will push the right buttons in the reader.
We can learn a lot from C, S. Lewis' art of witness! With its fifty five personal accounts of how Lewis' s writing changed lives, Mere Christians is a wonderful resource for inspiration and reflection for anyone who wants to share the Christian faith in a graceful, sensitive, meaningful way.
I almost passed on this book because I did not like its title, "Mere Christians" is, of course, a take on one of Lewis' most famous works, "Mere Christianity, "This is a collection of short pieces bypeople whose lives were influenced by Lewis, My own life was profoundly changed by my encounter with Lewis, and I have been reading him for overyears, But I have never,

in all that time, met anyone else whose experience was similar to mine, This book makes up for that deficit, What struck me most about it is the great variety of people who have read and loved Lewis, and, importantly, have been directed by him to the One about whom he writes.
Allof us love some of the same things about CSL, yet each of us has a personal story, orchestrated by God, in which Lewis played a significant role.
One of the most interesting things about the book was its revelation of the great number of people who were bowled over by "Mere Christianity.
" My experience was the opposite, Lewis drew me in with "Perelandra," and the Space Trilogy, He then enthralled me with Narnia, and delighted me with Screwtape, . Only later did I come to his apologetics, and later still to his medieval studies, I have always found it amazing and significant that he wrote in three diverse areas, and yet everything he produced was infused with the same Light.
The quality of his oeuvre is uniformly of the highest order, and part of his appeal is that everything he wrote is in his inimitable voice, no matter its subject.
This book shows the breadth of his work and of its appeal to a diverse and far flung audience, Yet we all do share one characteristic we have ended up, having tasted of Mr, Lewis, wanting to know his God, and having been found by Him, look forward with delight to meeting CSL and saying to him, "You are a great part of the reason I am here It is so wonderful to read about other fellow believers struggles and wisdom they've gained from CS Lewis' life experiences and writings C.
S. Lewis continues to hold remarkable appeal to people from all walks of life, with books by and about Lewis remaining perennially popular.
Arguably no author of the twentieth century has had a greater spiritual impact on people than Lewis, Mere Christians explores this influence through personal accounts from fifty five Christians whose spiritual lives have been dramatically altered by reading Lewis's books.
The contributors include ordinary laypeople as well as well known leaders and writers including Charles Colson, Anne Rice, Jill Briscoe, George Gallup Jr.
, Philip Yancey, and many. This unique collection shines new light on the impact of Lewis's work and will be of wide interest to his many fans.
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