the usual trouble about words being used in more than one sense.

TO GENIA GOELZ, who had asked Lewis for a prayer in her struggle to believe: Lewis’s prayer for a daily increase in obedience and faith. 18 March 1952 Don’t bother /at all /about that question of a person /being ‘made a Christian’ by baptism.  It is only the usual trouble /about words /being used in more than one sense.  Thus we might say () a man ‘became a soldier’ /the moment //that he joined the army. But his instructors might say six months later ‘I think () we have made a soldier of him’.  Both usages are quite definable, only one wants [to know which is being used in a given sentence].  The Bible itself gives us one short prayer //which is suitable for all //who are struggling with the beliefs and doctrines.  It is: ‘Lord I believe, help Thou my unbelief. ’Would [something of this sort] be any good?: [Almighty God], who art the Father of lights and who has promised /by thy dear Son [that all //who do thy will shall know thy doctrine:[John 7:17]give me grace /so to live that by daily obedience I daily increase in faith and in the understanding of thy Holy Word,through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II Compiled in Yours, Jack