Engage
As we’ve already mentioned, Jesus appears to be leaving the earth just in time to throw his disciples to the wolves:  “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” ~John 15:18,19  If that is the case, the question before us is how to endure the hate without ourselves becoming hateful.

We begin by reaching back to a sermon preached in 1945 by C.S. Lewis entitled: Christian Apologetics. It is a lovely read and one that I would hope every Christian would spend some time for both the enjoyment and the encouragement. He addresses how to engage with those who are hostile to the faith and, by extension, hostile to us. One perceptive section reads thus: A sense of sin is almost totally lacking. Our situation is thus very different from that of the apostles. The Pagans and still more the Metuentes (i.e. Jewish proselytes) to whom they preached were haunted by a sense of guilt and to them the Gospel was, therefore, “good news.” We address people who have been trained to believe that whatever goes wrong in the world is someone else’s fault–the capitalists’, the government’s, the Nazis, the generals’, etc. They approach God Himself as his judges. They want to know, not whether they can be acquitted for sin, but whether He can be acquitted for creating such a world. In attacking this fatal insensibility it is useless to direct attention (a) To sins your audience do not commit, or (b) To things they do, but do not regard as sins. They are usually not drunkards. They are mostly fornicators, but then they do not feel fornication to be wrong. It is, therefore, useless to dwell on either of these subjects.
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Awakening a sense of sin is certainly a part of the gospel and Lewis travels further on some of the “how to’s” in that regard. What I’ve always appreciated about his writing is his fidelity to the ancient faith – to orthodoxy as it were – while maintaining a keen awareness of the cultural proclivities of his audience. In addition, there is a marked self-deprecating tone to all of his work. He is speaking as a wounded healer. This gives to his words a timeless quality regardless of the shifting moral impulses of whatever moment in history one happens to be living. He was known as the “Joyful Christian.” Joy never goes out of style. And I’ve read ahead in my Bible. Joy is not only a birthright of the Christian…it is also a command. We’re to be joyful always. For that to be a possibility our emotions must be fueled by a source other than the spotty offerings of this life. We must be connected to that source of eternal joy which is circumstance resistant. (We’ll continue…)