Yes John, you are. Personally, after Jesus, C.S. Lewis is the person I most want to meet in heaven. The reasons being:
His infallible conciseness on points of doctrine. He never claimed to be a biblical scholar and never pretended to be one. But he did view the Bible in a literal sense, and he allowed God's Word to be alive in him; to be active in his imagination and his life.
His way with words. Keith Miller's "In the Habitation of Dragons" was the first book I read upon becoming a believer. "Mere Christianity" was the second. And then on and on with Lewis. Keith showed me, in that book, that all was not perfect with being a Christian (as opposed to what many in the Church would have us think). He was honest. And I saw, in a greater and more personal depth, that honesty in Lewis' books. For me, that is of great importance; an honesty that will reveal itself, even knowing the possibility of rejection and/or judgment.
Most especially, "Mere Christianity" and "A Grief Observed". Those two works made him real to me and made God real to me.
