NarnianNetty, when I was a teenager at one point I kept being tempted by the thought that I did not have enough faith. That somehow, even though I thought I believed, maybe I didn't quite believe enough as I had heard a sermon about predestination and also had to watch this disgusting movie for a college class and felt as if I had lost my soul and became very worried. An older woman suggested I study 1 John. We don't measure our amount of faith compared to others, we either trust Jesus for salvation or we don't. Other people cannot not take our faith away and things cannot take our faith away. If we address our doubts and study for answers, our faith becomes stronger.

I think one of the strengths of Narnia is that we have a world where characters that we feel as if we know are encouraged to respond in a Christian manner. There is a divide between knowing a list of things we should do and seeing good examples in action. I think that trust in Aslan is the significant thing to me. Digory has to trust Aslan over his own instincts even though he does not know that it is part of Aslan's plan to help his mum, Lucy has to trust Aslan in PC, Reep trusts prophecy fully, Puddleglum and Eustace put trust in what Aslan told Jill and this reinforces her trust although she does not know much about Aslan yet, and of course Tirian and Jewel have to trust that Aslan has not changed with the times.

At the time I became a Christian I had been reading Narnia a lot but I had also been reading the Bible, watching reruns of Billy Graham's crusades every week, and listening to my Sunday school teacher's lectures on certain animals that disproved evolution. As a nine-year-old I never thought about if Narnia had influenced me, but it very well could have. I had been upset at God. My dad had died of a cancer the previous year and I sort of wanted to be an athiest. So, Narnia might have influenced me this way, I don't know, I do know that the Narnia books became my favorite books at this time.

Wow that's awesome! I'm sorry for your loss. I honestly feel the same. I believe Narnia had a HUGE impact on my faith.

Narnia has helped me by way of little reminders of what I already know. I had a period of being “dragonish” and, just like Eustace, no matter how I tried, I couldn’t change. Narnia reminded me that I had to go belly-up and open myself to the rending claws of the One who could affect real change.
I’ve also had several moments in which a simple quote simply spoke to the situation. (Benefits of having a Dad who remembers spots of story that pertain to those situations!)

I think... for me it's part what Ariel said about little reminders, and part...
Let me backtrack. I grew up in a church-going family, but our parents did not have us baptised as babies and left it up to us. Our church, the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, is an amalgamation of several historical Protestant creeds (that's Czech church history for you), and a lot of things are kind of... up to you, so some parents have their babies baptised and others don't. I was baptised when I was 13 going on 14.
What it meant for me, though, was that... I do not have a single turning point in my life.
I grew up with Narnia, too.
I can't pinpoint life pre-Narnia and I can't pinpoint life pre-faith. I definitely did grow in faith, and still continue to, but... there is no "discovering Aslan" moment, so to say. I remember I loved learning about Timothy sometime in my early teens because, yay, there's someone in the Bible who's like me in this respect! (The closest I come to a turning point was a moment in my mid-twenties when I came across a poster in a church inviting to Alpha Courses asking "What would you tell God if He existed?", and I stared at that somehow trying to decode that sentence and ended up with "Well, what I normally tell Him." 😀 I do remember that as a sort of vivid turning point in terms of... facing my faith head on for myself. 🙂 )
So, what Narnia did for me instead, I think, was this: I've long had trouble putting my internal, intuitive faith into external words. That's what others of Lewis' writings eventually started helping me with, I think, especially Mere Christianity which was extremely helpful before my baptism - I read it unrelated to the preparation for it, but it really helped me make sense of all that was part of the preparation. (Actually, the minister of my congregation at the time is one of the Czech translators of Lewis' essays so... I suspect he was also influenced. 😀 )
But, you know, living with an internal assurance but somehow disconnected from how other people were wording it? Something like that. Words often came off somehow dry and unreal or it was something that happened ages ago and how exactly does it relate to my living my life right now? Or, alternately, people were saying exactly how it related to life right now but it was someone else's (often, you know, adults' 😉 ) life that did not directly affect me. Intellectually I knew but it was hard to just live with it even though that was in fact exactly what I was doing. And I think the imagination present in Narnia helped me and helps me carry through despite the "dry spells" of, well, religion.

And of course in composing that I forgot the big huge lesson I took from the Narnia books, which is: not letting my moods influence my conduct too much, and being aware that they're just my moods so being capable of, say, apologising later. See especially: Lucy waking up the others in Prince Caspian, and just about the whole of The Silver Chair.

Wow! That's so neat to hear your story! I somewhat know what you mean. I know I believe in God. I know I'm saved without a doubt. I'm trying to follow him and walk in his ways. I want to follow him because I love God and he's done so much for me, the least I can do is live for him. I've been asking myself why I believe in God lately and all that come up is, "Because I've seen what he can do." I don't know if that's a good enough answer though. I've honestly seen God work in my life and in my family's lives. I've seen him move and make things happen. I've seen his healing and restoration. I've seen his blessings but is my answer a good enough answer? I was thinking if anyone asks how,I would tell them what I've experienced. I'm not good with expressing emotion through words so it's kind of hard for me.

Narniannetty, Narnia has helped me spiritually in showing that you can put your faith into stories. I have fun writing stories of fiction and I try to put something of my faith in them. (They aren't always very well written) But I feel that these Narnia stories have made my faith stronger. I've also looked into a biographie of C.S. Lewis by one of his close friend and seen that he didn't have an easy life but stuck to his faith which helped me too.

Narnia has helped me grasp more concretely that although sometimes things seem bleak and hopeless, God is still at work, working out His good, acceptable and mysterious plan for your life.  I see this truth brought out beautifully in The Horse and His Boy, in which the great Lion is constantly in the background, saving, guiding, protecting, comforting, disciplining, responding, motivating and more... even though Bree, Hwin, Aravis, and Shasta initially see their adventures on the surface as a haphazard string of unconnected events.

@benisse That's an incredible statue. It really looks like it could be Bree and Shasta. I think you may have shared it before, but I didn't realise it was a surviving original Greek bronze statue (there aren't all that many, especially of this sort). Makes my geeky heart even happier.

I agree that the spiritual message of HHB is so powerful once you realise that it's one of the main themes of the book (Aslan always being there, guiding him the whole time). HHB was initially the hardest book for me to finish (as a child) and didn't leave a big impression on me as a teenager. But, it hit me really hard the last time we read it for the Summer Challenge. Through all those things Shasta (and others) thought was just "rotten luck" or "I wish this never happened to me", Aslan was there - using or helping or even orchestrating events for good.

@ajnos 
The amazing thing about this statue which was almost life-size was that it was discovered in a shipwreck offshore in Greece and then meticulously cleaned to restore it. I love it too!