Questions for Discussion - Letter XII

1.Are the simple choices we make on a daily basis really trivial and revocable? Can you give some examples of an apparently simple choice that ended up causing major life changing consequences?
2.How can church going habits be good or bad?
3.What is this “dim uneasiness” that Screwtape talks about?
4.How can we work diligently to keep a health prayer life?
5.How should we choose our friends and amusements? Describe the steps from “choice of friends” (a apparently small unimportant decision) to the “cold dark and utmost place”
6.Have you ever felt that “increased reluctance to think about “ things of God? And what sort of distractions affect your devotional life?
7.How cumulative are small sins? And how to prevent them to slowly and gently taking one into the safest road to Hell?

Questions for Discussion - Letter XI

1.How is joy characterized among friends and lovers reunited on the eve of a holiday? 2.How can we experience real Joy? Is the “Joy of the Lord” your strength? If not, what is missing?
3.What is the real danger of Fun according to Screwtape?
4.Describe the type 1 (to whom no passion is as serious as lust and for whom an indecent story ceases to produce lasciviousness as it becomes funny), and type 2 (to whom laughter and lust are excited at the same moment and by the same things) as depicted by Lewis. Try to compare what they would look in your own circle of friends. How can we help ourselves not to become as one of these characters?
5.If “joy is the serious business of heaven, what is missing in my life and our church life so we can more fully enjoy the God given joy? How can we develop joy in our lives? What is God’s warning in (Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity), Deuteronomy 28:46-48 and how do I compare it to Hebrews 10:34?
6.Does God have a sense of humor?
7.How can we avoid the temptation of flippancy? Is it really as dangerous as Lewis mentions?
8.Can there be joy outside God’s will?