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Chapter VI

Dear Woodworm,

I recently learnt a term from a good friend. The term is called Lao Jiao. By itself, this term doesn’t seem to be able to do much damage to the human soul but add the most basic elementary devil trick called pride to it and it can do a lot of damaged unnoticed. It’s a wonderful gateway for us to enter human souls.

I realized that those who consider themselves Lao Jiaos either inwardly or outwardly can range from those who have joined the enemy from one month to several years. Although it seems to suggest an idea of seniority, there don’t seem to be a benchmark of years to be considered a Lao Jiao. It is more of a heart attitude I realized. I also observed that Lao Jiaos can’t bring themselves to call themselves Lao Jiaos because it is considered too unspiritual for Lao Jiaos to consider themselves Lao Jiaos but their inner soul is already full of this syndrome.

Once there is this tinge of Lao Jiao syndrome, we move in with hordes of pride. Lao Jiaos learn and absorb things of the enemy at a much slower rate I realized, because there just don’t see the need to learn more about their so called Lord and Saviour anymore.

These Lao Jiaos have been to numerous worship sessions, week in and week out. Those creatures by nature thrive on experiencing new things. The enemy tries to entice them by giving them new experiences everyday and we can do nothing about it. What we can do is that the moment these enticement becomes nothing more then a theory for these lowly creatures – which marks the full blown syndrome of the Lao Jiao disease - we can move in big time!

However, we do not expose these creatures and cause them to leave the enemy’s camp physically yet. We still have big uses for them. During worship,bring the creature out of their emotional mode and have them pin point at how things could have been better. The lightings, the worship leader, the music, the venue are all things they can find fault with. Once the motive of their evaluations move to fault finding and not to improve the next worship session, we’ve succeeded into bringing disunity to the group.

I recently came across this enemy’s view:

Not all evaluations are bad. In fact most are constructive and good. When done at the right time at the right place and to the right people it is good. But we must not let the devil deceives us by making our evaluations occupy more of our thoughts then worship. Evaluations are meant to improve the worship sessions and not to find fault with things you do not like. Make your worship priority today

What utter rubbish.

From your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape

Labels: The Devil's Worship

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Friday, August 31, 2007