Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Questions to Consider for Letter III

1. How can domestic irritations adversely affect the Christian / prayer life?
2. How does God work to bring a young Christian “under a new standard”
3. Why should we avoid concentrating our minds on the inner life?
4. How should we pray?
5. What are the habits Screwtape wants Wormwood to develop in his “patient” and why are they important?
6. What would be the “neglect of the obvious”?
7. How to combat “double standards”?
8. Considering what Lewis says about the patient’s mother, why are the son’s prayers too “spiritual”?
9. Discuss the problem of jealousy in connection with the reference to the “Enemy’s story” of the prodigal son at the end of the letter.

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