Thy Kingdom Come…

… the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into 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 purpose. It says in the Bible that the whole universe was made for Christ and that everything is to be gathered together in Him.

I do not suppose any of us can understand how this will happen as regards the whole universe.  We do not know what (if anything) lives in the parts of it that are millions of miles from this Earth.  Even on this Earth we do not know how it applies to things other than men.  After all, that is what you would expect.  We have been shown the plan only in so far as it concerns ourselves.

What we have been told is how we can be drawn into Christ – can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer his Father – that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him.  It is the only thing we were made for.  And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right.  The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

C.S. Lewis | Mere Christianity