We Christians
“He must be made to feel (he’d better not put it into words) ‘how different we Christians are’; and by ‘we Christians’ he must really, but unknowingly, mean ‘my set’; and by ‘my set’ he must mean not ‘The people who, in their charity and humility, have accepted me’, but ‘The people with whom I associate by right’” (The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, 2001, p132, originally published in 1942).
Screwtape describes a subtle way for Wormwood to lead his man into the sin of pride.
The Body of Christ is not a club. There is no initiation or hazing that earns me the right to join. Nor am I so worthy that I may join on my own merit.
The Christian has nothing in himself to be proud of.
But I happily associate myself with that Body and I’m humbled to have been brought into the Church.
We Christians are Christians not by right, but by grace.
What do you think?
Joseph
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