Likewise with the church. Yes there needs to be evangelisation and spiritual awareness (for example), but as with Lewis, these things don’t exist on their own. There’s a world around and within the church that it needs to be aware of. The church needs to be able to stand back and take a wider perspective, and to understand the world and the people around it.

Lewis has been punished, lost the respect of those around him and he is on his own. Think of him like the raging street preacher, determined and fixed on his goal, brave and unwavering. Yet many if not most in the church, let alone the man in the street, have no respect for him, and his goals get more and more unacheivable.

Morality says that acheiving goals at the cost of everything else is wrong. As the church is in some way the “owner” of morality, it needs to make sure that in calling some things “good”, it doesn’t do so at the expense of everything else, and ultimately the failure to acheive it’s goals.

I’m trying to read between the lines a bit to see where you are coming from – it may be because I am misunderstanding your use of the word ‘morality’.

I what ways do you think the church can be more relevant to society?