Narnia is Coming!

Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is coming out as a film soon. I encourage you to re-read it. It's really blessing me. Near the beginning, the little girl Lucy discovers Narnia but no one believes her. They then go to the man who owns the house, the Professor, to find out what he thinks. They, of course, expect him--the rational man he is--to say that Lucy is mistaken or just dreaming.

His response surprises.

"How do you know that your sister's story is not true?"

To often, when we try to defend our Christian beliefs, we take a defensive position. But sometimes we need to just say, "How do you know FOR SURE that the story isn't true?" and just keep telling the story. Help your listener see the beauty of this other world just as Lucy interested her siblings in Narnia. In my English classes now, I have just started telling God's story. I hope they will hear the whole story. Only then can they really decide if it's true or not. Too often we don't tell the story but start with explaining why we believe the story is true. Maybe in our evangelism we just need to become better tellers of the Story rather than staunch defenders of the faith.

But--just like with Lucy, the story is one thing. Stepping through the wardrobe is another. We as a church need to be a living demonstration of the truth that another world really does exist. And that proof is incontrovertible.