Why are we always fighting in the church?
Why so many parties, factions, divisions and denominations?
How can we differentiate between essential and peripheral matters when disagreeing?
What can we do to minimize this problem?
Has things changed much from the time of the Corinthian's church?
Monday, November 27, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Questions for Discussion and Reflection - Letter VI
1. What, according to Screwtape is the best way to barricade a human’s mind from God? Do you agree with that suggestion?
2. Why is it so important for us to be concerned with what we do?
3. How should we see the Lord ’s Prayer as saying “Thy will be done?
4. What should be considered as our appointed cross?
5. What should be considered the “spiritual law” involved with the notion of fear?
6. Discuss: “but in all activities favorable to the Enemy bend his mind back on itself.”
7. What difference would it make to fix my attention on the “state called anger” versus the being insulted by somebody?
8.Discus the ways in which “the malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary”.
9.What do you think of this view of a man as a series of concentric circles?
10. Discuss the differences between the Will and the Heart.
2. Why is it so important for us to be concerned with what we do?
3. How should we see the Lord ’s Prayer as saying “Thy will be done?
4. What should be considered as our appointed cross?
5. What should be considered the “spiritual law” involved with the notion of fear?
6. Discuss: “but in all activities favorable to the Enemy bend his mind back on itself.”
7. What difference would it make to fix my attention on the “state called anger” versus the being insulted by somebody?
8.Discus the ways in which “the malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary”.
9.What do you think of this view of a man as a series of concentric circles?
10. Discuss the differences between the Will and the Heart.
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Questions for Discussion - Letter IV
1. What is the first reaction against the “parrot like prayers of childhood?
2. What would be the main difference between a prayer of an “advanced in the Enemy’s service” and the spontaneous prayer of the beginner?
3. Does the position of the body have any influence on prayer according to Screwtape?
4. How do feelings affect my prayer life?
5. What is the danger of the “real nakedness of the soul” in prayer?
6. What does “the Enemy” pour out in “quite shameless fashion on the praying patient?
For Further Reading and Reflection:
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision of God its bread and wine.” CSL
2. What would be the main difference between a prayer of an “advanced in the Enemy’s service” and the spontaneous prayer of the beginner?
3. Does the position of the body have any influence on prayer according to Screwtape?
4. How do feelings affect my prayer life?
5. What is the danger of the “real nakedness of the soul” in prayer?
6. What does “the Enemy” pour out in “quite shameless fashion on the praying patient?
For Further Reading and Reflection:
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision of God its bread and wine.” CSL
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