No other purpose

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”

It is so easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects – education, building, missions, holding services…The Church exists for no other purpose but to draw men to Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other reason. (C.S. Lewis)