centered, but God-centered, Christ-centered. Returning to
the quotation of C.S. Lewis,
"Christianity leads you on, out of morality, into something beyond.
One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those
things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with
what we shall call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But
they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are
not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from
which it comes." 18The distinctive of Christianity and Christian behavior is
that Christians are looking only at the source of all things in
Christ and deriving all from Him by the dynamic of His
grace.
An Historical Survey of the Failure
to Differentiate Christian Behavior and MoralityBeginning at the beginning of all history, we recall
again the intent of God in His creation, which was to be the
constantly creative dynamic within His creature, man, in
order to manifest His divine character by His divine grace
unto His own glory. "We were created for His glory" (Isa.
43:7). It takes God in a man for man to be man as God
intended man to be. By man's receptivity to God's life in
the "tree of life," God's goodness would have been