We are coming off of our national conference dedicated to the life and legacy of CS Lewis,

who, of course, died 50 years ago this fall.

When you think of celebrating a guy like Lewis, you must also be conscious of Lewis's

failures and his weaknesses, which were also addressed at the conference and their celebration

and critique, Pastor John, how do you process this, especially the critique?

How did you think through the critique of Lewis throughout the conference?

One of the big, recurrent questions at the conference, sometimes behind the scenes, sometimes

on the panel, was, why can we benefit?

Why do I benefit from Lewis so much when he is so defective in some important doctrines?

And he never saw himself as an advocate for any tribe, like my little reformed tribe.

He wouldn't have thought of himself that way.

And so we had to try to answer the question, what is it about Lewis that is, say, different

from people who share some of his defective views whom we wouldn't have at a conference

say.

And yet here we're devoting a whole conference to Lewis, and you seem like a contradiction

to some folks.

And here are some of the thoughts that I've had that came out of some of those conversations

about what is it about Lewis?

And to be honest, number one is probably that he's dead.

I don't want to pass over that and ignore it.

I'm sure that has an effect.

I'm not sure what we would do with Lewis as the living dinosaur, which he called himself.

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