Cool Quote Friday - On Time!

"It is so easy to think that the church has a lot of different objects - education, buildings, missions, holding services. Just as it is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects - military, political, economic, and what not.

But in a way thinkgs are much simpler than that. The State exists to promote and protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden - that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parlaiments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

In the same way the church exists for nothing else but to draw men to Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, then all the cathedrals, all the clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose. It says in the Bible that the whole universe was made for Christ and that everything in it is to be gathered together in Him."
~C.S. Lewis