Lewis and Europe
Bert Weenink
Date posted: 1 Sep 2016
Dear Sir,
I would like to respond to two comments
Robert Coulson made in his letter ‘Lewis
and the EU’ (Letters, July en). I agree with
him that C.S. Lewis’s comment made
in
1953, referring to the apostasy of the great
part of Europe
from the Christian
faith,
would apply well to the EU today, as long as
we are realistic and humble enough to admit
that this includes the spiritual condition of
Great Britain.
Are we fighting the wrong battles?
‘The church is not here to reform the world, for the world cannot be reformed. The business of the church is to evangelise, to preach the gospel of salvation to people blinded by sin and under the domination and the power of the devil’ (Lloyd-Jones, D. M., 1982, Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home and Work, Banner of Truth, pages 318-319).
I wonder what Lloyd-Jones would have made of the constant efforts of evangelical Christians to stand up and be heard in the political, moral and social arena.