Writer and apologist C. S. Lewis isn’t known for his philosophy on self-esteem or his musings on the legitimacy of feelings, but he did make an observation about Christians and their relationship to Christ that I think Fred would agree with: “When they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.”7 Many people feel they must surrender their personalities in order to become more Christlike. But Lewis further pointed out that “the deepest likings and impulses of any man are the raw material, the starting-point, with which [Christ] has furnished him.”8 Surrendering our lives is not the
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