Feel the Spray!

C. S. Lewis wrote (thanks to Maggi Dawn for the post)

The author C. S. Lewis once wrote that there is all the difference in the world between reading a map of the coastline and feeling the spray of the ocean upon your face. People come to church, he said, not to be taught to read maps [about God], but to feel the spray.*

(Found in TAD, Pentecost 2003, in an article by Rev. Virginia L. Bennett: hat tip to Jason at Gower Street)

This is exactly what the church should be doing!  We spend far too much time talking about the theory of the bible and not enough time getting wet from the spray of the sea!

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