One of the qualities that C. S. Lewis was blessed with was his keen ability to use ordinary language to speak to the "common man." When he spoke over the BBC in the radio broadcasts that would become the book, Mere Christianity, he was brilliant in using images that every man and woman could relate to easily. Early on in the Preface of the book Lewis uses the imagery of the "home" to describe the place where faith is discovered and nourished. He tells us that the "mere" Christianity that he is putting forward is not to be understood as an alternative to the creeds of historic Christianity, but rather he likens it to a home with warm fires, meals, and companionship. He writes:

"It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms. If I can bring anyone into that hall I shall have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms, not it the hall,…