1 Corinthians 3:8ġ.It appears that the church is the number-one tool for temptation. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour …. Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anticlimax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman.How would a preoccupation with the physical side of reality and ignorance of the spiritual be foundational for diabolical strategy?Ģ.How did Screwtape use what he called the “pressures of the ordinary,” ¶ 3, and the familiar, ¶ 4, to “rescue” him from the influence of the Enemy?ģ.In what ways do you think the pressures of the “ordinary” make you susceptible to diabolical influence?Ĥ.What do you learn about the diabolical and the divine when it comes to the value of both argument, ¶ 2, and science, ¶ 4?ĥ.What did you learn about the nature of both divine and diabolical strategies that is new or surprising to you? 2 Timothy 2:25-26 (NIV)ġ.Screwtape affirms Wormwood for encouraging his patient’s association with a “materialist” friend, ¶ 1. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach! ~ Screwtape Do remember that you are there to fuddle him.

Your man has become accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to have a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head….Letter 1: The Patient’s Materialist Friend Visit Amazon to purchase the Screwtape Letters. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters” by Clay and Jean E. Verses are from: “Discussion Guide for C. References: Questions are from: “ The Screwtape Letters Study Guide” by the C.S.

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