These pages are a summary of C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. The notes have been summarized so that a group or discussion leader can lead one chapter per meeting, or the chapters can be grouped together to cover multiple chapters per meeting. Most groups will choose to cover the entire book in an eight or twelve week session, but there is enough content to spend a year in this book. We hope that the chapter summaries are helpful for those who choose to lead groups through this book. You can tell from the length of the summary approximately how much time most groups will spend in discussion in most chapters. Leaders may also find it useful to print out copies of these notes to use as handouts.

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Mere Christianity Leaders’ notes:

• Book One – “Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe” (all 5 chapters)Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe” (all 5 chapters)

• Book Two – “What Christians Believe”
  • Chapter 1: “The Rival Concepts of God”
  • Chapter 2: “The Invasion”
  • Chapter 3: “The Shocking Alternative”
  • Chapter 4: “The Perfect Penitent”
  • Chapter 5: “The Practical Conclusion”

• Book Three – “Christian Behavior”
  • Chapter 1: “The Three Parts of Morality”
  • Chapter 2: “The ‘Cardinal Virtues’”
  • Chapter 3: “Social Morality”
  • Chapter 4: “Morality and Psychoanalysis”
  • Chapter 5: “Sexual Morality”
  • Chapter 6: “Christian Marriage”
  • Chapter 7: “Forgiveness”
  • Chapter 8: “The Great Sin”
  • Chapter 9: “Charity”
  • Chapter 10: “Hope”
  • Chapter 11: “Faith”
  • Chapter 12: “Faith”

• Book Four – “Beyond Personality: or First Steps In The Doctrine of the Trinity”
  • Chapter 1: “Making and Begetting”
  • Chapter 2: “The Three-Personal God”
  • Chapter 3: “Time and Beyond Time”
  • Chapter 4: “Good Infection”
  • Chapter 5: “The Obstinate Toy Soldiers”
  • Chapter 6: “Two Notes”
  • Chapter 7: “Let’s Pretend”
  • Chapter 8: “Is Christianity Hard or Easy?”
  • Chapter 9: “Counting the Cost”
  • Chapter 10: “Nice People or New Men”
  • Chapter 11: “The New Men”

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