Sunday, April 30, 2006
Thoughts Worth Remembering!
I am preparing to teach Sunday School this morning - The Screwtape Letters, Letters 4-7. Ran across the following quotation from letter 7 which put me in mind of this piece I wrote earlier in the week.
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Any small coteries, bound together by some interest which other men dislike or ignore, tends to develop inside itself a hothouse mutual admiration, and towards the outer worlds, a great deal of pride and hatred which is entertained without shame because the 'Cause' is its sponsor and it is thought to be impersonal. Even when the little group exists originally for the enemy?s own purposes, this remains true?.but subordinate factions within her [the church] have often produced admirable results, from the parties of Paul and of Apollos at Corinth down to the High and Low parties in the Church of England.When we hold some part of Christianity more important that Christ Himself, we do the work of Wormwood and Screwtape.
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