Finding Your Way Back Home

Lost

Everyone knows what it’s like to be lost. Like a child separated from its mother, you’re unsure of which way to go. You search for something familiar, something that can help you find your way back…. Something that can help you find your way home.

In early 1941 — the high-water mark of the German military offensive in Britain — the British people had an intimate understanding of what it meant to feel lost. The nighttime bombing raids on London and other British cities had left 43,000 Britons dead and over 100,000 wounded. The rest of the nation was left unnerved and afraid — unsure of what tomorrow would bring.

Enter C.S. Lewis.

Already an accomplished Christian Apologist, Lewis had released his book, The Problem with Pain, a year earlier. Impressed with his “quality of thinking and depth of conviction” , the BBC’s Director of Religious Broadcasting, James Welch, asked him to share his gifts with the nation via a series of radio broadcasts.

Can’t you imagine the mental state of the British people? Their cities leveled. Their friends left dead or wounded. The future must have seemed uncertain at best, terrifying at worst. They must have felt completely lost and alone: unable to find their way back home to anything that resembled the lives they had known before the war.

Maybe you can relate? Maybe you haven’t lived through anything as devastating as the Second World War, but you know what it means to feel lost. You know what it means to struggle with a lack of purpose or meaning.

Find Your Way Home

It is in the midst of this uncertainty that C.S. Lewis and his message of hope inspired a faithful resolve in a war-torn nation with very little reason to hope.  I’ll tell you more about what C.S. Lewis said during these broadcasts, but first, let me tell you what he didn’t say.

He didn’t talk about matters of high theology or denomination specific topics such as transubstantiation or infant baptism. According to Lewis, “I offer no help to anyone who is hesitating between two Christian ‘denominations’”. He did not seek to divide on matters of doctrine.

Instead, he sought to unite around a simple message of “mere Christianity”. He rather seamlessly conveyed a logical, rational and altogether compelling case for the one true God. 

As Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardmann said, “The war, the whole of life, everything tended to seem pointless. We needed, many of us, a key to the meaning of the universe. Lewis provided just that.”

His arguments for the perfect goodness of God helped a hopeless nation find meaning. His concise points on morality helped them to find purpose.

Find Your Way Back to God

As I said, perhaps you too are currently living in a world of panic and confusion, unsure of what tomorrow will bring. Maybe you were raised in the faith but have since been carried away by the tides of skepticism and doubt. Perhaps you would also benefit from the clarity and “depth of conviction” of Lewis’s words? Perhaps his ‘quality of thinking’ might help you find your way home?

In 1952, those radio broadcasts that inspired a generation of Britons were transferred to the written page. If you can relate to the feelings of loss that permeated Briton in 1941, I would encourage you to purchase a copy of C.S. Lewis’s book, Mere Christianity. Let his timeless message of simple Christian virtue help you find your way home —find your way back to God.

If you think this book may help to bring peace and clarity to your life, click the link below to find C.S. Lewis’s, Mere Christianity, on Amazon.

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