C.S. Lewis On Commitment The Call To Discipleship

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By Arthur W. Lindsley on January 1, 2010 ,

C.S. Lewis On Commitment The Call To Discipleship

Dr. Art Lindsley

C.S. Lewis was one who was deeply committed to Christ. Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’s stepson, calls him “The finest and best Christian I have ever known.” Walter Hooper, who lived with Lewis the last few months of his life, said the nature of his faith in God—the bigness of Lewis’s God—always humbled him because of how his own view was paltry by comparison.

One of Lewis’s favorite passages (his most often quoted passage) was Mark 8:34f:

34 If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For
whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; and
whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospels
shall save it. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain
the whole world and forfeit his soul?. . .

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Arthur W. Lindsley

Senior Fellow for Apologetics, CSLI Arthur W. Lindsley is the Vice President of Theological Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Works, & Economics. He has served at the C.S. Lewis Institute since 1987 both as President until 1998 and currently as Senior Fellows for Apologetics. Formerly, he was director of Educational Ministries at the Ligonier Valley Study Center, and Staff Specialist with the Coalition for Christian Outreach. He is the author of C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ, True Truth, Love: The Ultimate Apologetic, and co-author with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner of Classical Apologetics, and has written numerous articles on theology, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, and the lives and works of many other authors and teachers. Art earned his M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.  

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