On this date in 1931, famed Christian thinker C.S. Lewis, was converted in fairly unusual circumstances. C.S. Lewis enjoying a good pipe and likely reflecting on his sidecar experience When asked what they know about C.S. Lewis, most people respond by saying he was a famous thinker, academic, apologist, and author of the Chronicles of Narnia series - and all of this is very true. But what many people don't know is that Lewis had a brother named Warren and Warren had a motorcycle with a sidecar.
86 years ago today C.S. Lewis sat in his brother's sidecar on a trip to the zoo. It was then that something happened. Later, Lewis would write, "When we set out, I did not believe that Jesus is the Son of God; and when we reached the zoo I did." Lewis's sidecar conversion had followed a lengthy talk he had the prior week with two of his Christian friends. Their names were Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Tolkien.
May I offer you a personal observation as a pastor? The reason many people are forever looking for a church and never finding the right one might be because they have, at best, a vague and poorly defined understanding of what a church even is.
Frequently you'll hear people talking about the authority of the Bible - but what do they mean? In the quotations below you'll find a number of good answers.  10. “The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.”
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