Be Subject One to Another

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William Klock discusses the concept of being subject to one another through the lens of Ephesians and C. S. Lewis' Narnia.

Be Subject to One Another Ephesians 5:21-6:9 by William Klock   Yesterday our parish breakfast group discussed C. S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . In the story, Edmund and Lucy make their third visit to the magical land of Narnia, but they also take their cousin, Eustace, with them. And Eustace, he has no framework, no point of reference, no way to understand Narnia. Because Eustace came from a “progressive” family. He addressed his parents by their first names. He read books about factories and granaries, about modern industry and agriculture. The one bit of beauty in his home was a painting of a Narnian ship. His parents couldn’t bear it, but it had been a gift and they couldn’t get rid of it, so they hung it in a disused bedroom. Eustace couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of being in a land of kings and princesses, magic and dragons, and talking animals. All he can do in the first few chapters is scream for the British Consul, compare King Caspian’s beautiful dragon ship to modern steamships, and retreat from everyone.   And, I think, if we had to understand God on our own, we’d be a lot like Eustace. We wouldn’t have the vocabulary, let alone the…

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Host: William Klock

Topics covered

• submission
• Christianity
• Ephesians
• Narnia
• C. S. Lewis
• spirituality

Keywords

• Ephesians 5:21-6:9
• C. S. Lewis
• Narnia
• submission
• Christianity
• spirituality
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Books & works: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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