A Half Gospel is Still a False Gospel

Recognizing the Enemy's Tactics

The Enemy's Strategy Revealed

In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis gives us an inside look into the tactics, strategies, and goals of the enemy. This summary is sobering on so many levels:

"Dear Wormwood... Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours—and the more 'religious' (on those terms) the more securely ours. I could show you a pretty cageful down here."

— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (HarperOne, 2001), 34-35.

Lewis's fictional demon Screwtape reveals something profound: the enemy's primary strategy isn't to make us explicitly anti-God; it's to subtly shift our priorities until good things become ultimate things. It's a masterclass in spiritual subversion that happens so gradually we rarely notice the shift.

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