Mere Christianity

Key takeaways:

- A nice, well explained summary of the ‘key' tenants of the faith, while acknowledging and leaving room for people to have differing views.
- C. S. Lewis is a master at examples.
- I found the section on pride to be especially convicting. I can be perfectly happy with what I have, but as soon as someone close to me has more, I suddenly become dissatisfied with something that had previously been enough.
- Do not worry about whether or not you feel love for a person. Act as though you do. In doing that, you will have loved the person.
- God operates outside of time. Imagine you are an author writing a story about Mary. You write, “Mary sat down at her table to eat.” You can then go back to the start of her story and fill in some details, then jump to the end of the book and adjust her ending. When you resume, Mary doesn't know anything happened, but you can move around outside of time and adjust the story.