Let Me Share My Infection...

I love reading C.S. Lewis. Interestingly, I used to think he was so deep and hard to get into. Well, he is deep in that he thinks deeply. So often people gloss over concepts in faith and never take time to digest the meaning. We swallow in whole bites without chewing, neglecting the thought and care of what the concepts mean in and of themselves and the implications they hold for our existence. Lewis camps out on a concept, pitches a tent, pulls out a shovel, and digs. What happens next (and this is the beaty of Jack), is that he finds ways to show us the depths he's dug and what he's discovered. Yes, I used to think he was too deep. I just never read him enough to know that he was really making so many things so much simpler.

I read this this morning:

Some of you may feel that this is very unlike your own experience. You may say 'I've never had the sense of being helped by an invisible Christ, but I often have been helped by other human beings.' That is rather like the woman in the first war who waid that if there were a bread shortage it would not bother her house because they always ate toast. If there is no bread there will be no toast. If there were no help from Christ, there would be no help from other human beings.... Men are mirrors, or 'carriers' of Christ to other men. Sometimes unconscious carriers. This 'good infection' can be carried by those who have not got it themselves. People who were not Christians themselves helped me to Christianity. But usually it is those who know Him that bring Him to others. That is why the Church, the whole body of Chistians showing Him to one another, is so important.

Some carry the infection, but exhibit no symptoms. I pray I will be wonderfully infected and tremendously contagious. I want no cure.

Sorry, been working on some big projects, and had Spring Break last week. Here's the latest. Sin soap. It'll wash all yer sins away! This brings me to a question: in what ways does the of Christ "wash away" our sins? I mean...the sins are still there, right? And if we make ourselves behave after salvation then is it not our willpower that takes sins away? I know the positional vs. practical righteousness stuff, but I wonder if some people think that the of Jesus is like soap that "warshes all'em sins down the to'let of the flesh!" Sorry, I'm being facetious. But really. To what extent are we clean from sin in this life? Anybody got any great ideas? I've got my own, but I want to hear from y'all.