"And let me make it quite clear that when
Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something
mental or moral. When they speak of being ‘in Christ’ or of Christ being ‘in
them’, this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ
or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that
the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ
acts—that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body. And perhaps
that explains one or two things. It explains why this new life is spread not
only by purely mental acts like belief, but by bodily acts like baptism and
Holy Communion. It is not merely the spreading of an idea; it is more like
evolution—a biological or superbiological fact. There is no good trying to be
more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature.
That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life
into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He
invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it."
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 64
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