I’m going to set this up to read my next book….
How to Read Your Next Book
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How to Avoid God
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Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully, but you’d be safer to stick to the papers. You’ll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or snobbish appeal.
—CS Lewis in Christian Reflections
Baptism is Not the First Step of Discipleship
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When the church teaches about baptism, one of the things it often says is that baptism is the first step of discipleship.
I frequently taught this myself, but in recent years have come to discover that this is not exactly true.
When does Discipleship Begin?
Discipleship, I believe, begins the moment we are born, when Jesus, through the work of the Holy Spirit, begins us to draw us to Himself.
As we age, we learn about God, sin, righteousness, and judgment in a myriad of different ways. We learn about these through nature, our conscience, and if we have access to it, through the Bible. All of this, strictly speaking, is discipleship, since we are learning about who we are and what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. Along the way, some of us hear specifically about Jesus, and are persuaded to believe in Him for eternal life. Following this, we continue down the path of discipleship until we die. We discussed all this previously in the posts on evangelism.
In this way of thinking, discipleship is a life-long process; not something that begins once we believe.
CS Lewis on Singing in Church
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What we want to know is whether untrained communal singing is in itself any more edifying than other popular pleasures. And of this I, for one, am still wholly unconvinced. I have often heard this noise; I have sometimes contributed to it. I do not yet seem to have found any evidence that the physical and emotional exhilaration which it produces is necessarily, or often, of any religious relevance. What I, like many other laymen, chiefly desire in church are fewer, better, and shorter hymns; especially fewer.
—CS Lewis in Christian Reflections
The Relational Tithe
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This is the final post in the series on tithing.
I decided I would close it out with some further resources to help you learn how to “tithe” from your income in the ways that have been suggested in this series…. that is, by personally helping people in need.
I mention a few books below, and I am giving away one of them away for free to someone on the newsletter list. I meant to have my next free ebook out by now, but since it is not ready, I will enter all newsletter subscribers into a drawing for a free copy of 101 Ways to Help People in Need
Helpful resources for loving others
At the top of the list are some blog posts by Sam Riviera at GraceGround.com. He has written a helpful and insightful series of blogs posts on “Getting to Know Your Neighbor” and another series on “Being the Church in the Community” which are full of practical suggestions on developing relationships with people in your neighborhood, and looking for tangible ways to love and serve them. I cannot recommend these blog posts enough.
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