Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
Mere Christianity: Leaders' Notes - Book 4-Chapter 8
Parent: Mere Christianity: Leaders' Notes Series
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Chapter 8: "Is Christianity Hard or Easy?"
Putting on Christ is not just one job that Christians have, it is the one job that Christians have.
- It's not something only a special class of Christians do, it's what Christianity is all about.
- This is completely different from any other idea of 'morality' or 'being good.'
The ordinary idea for young Christians, or non-Christians is
- We start with ourselves
- We admit that there 'morality' or 'decent behavior' or 'the good of society' has some claim on our lives
- Those claims interfere with our own desires
- We try to do all of the 'right' things and not do all of the 'wrong' things and have something of ourselves left over to pursue our own interests.
- Lewis likens it to paying taxes, and hoping we have something left over to live on.
