I've just begun rereading CS Lewis' classic, Mere Christianity. I don't think I've picked this book up in well over a decade and I'm really enjoying reading again.
Here's a couple of my favorite thoughts from chapter 5.
"We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward deos not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man."
"Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness."
Yep, the best way forward, the way of progress, is to examine our lives in the light of the authority of the triune God as revealed to us in the Scripture and to repent, do an about-turn, from anything in our lives that is contrary to the written word of God. As the Westminster Confession reminds us, "The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." Chapter 1:10
