"The State of Christianity"

"I don't really have a 'take on the state of Christianity.'  But when I read your question, this answer came to mind;  As I understand it, into the heart of every Christian, Christ comes, and Christ goes.  When, by his Grace, the landscape of the heart becomes vast and deep and limitless, then Christ makes his abode in that graceful heart, and His Will prevails.  The experience is recognized as Peace. In the absence of this experience much activity arises, divisions of every sort.  Outside of the organizational enterprise, which some applaud and some mistrust, stands the figure of Jesus, nailed to a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering by dissolving itself in a radical confession of hospitality."

Leonard Cohen

A Civil War

"Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war.  But it does not think this is a war between independent powers.  It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel Enemy --occupied territory -- that is what this world is."

C.S. Lewis,  "Mere Christianity"