“In the early eighties, Os Guinness, one of the most intellectual Christian writers of our time, wrote a book titled The Gravedigger File. Based on C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, a book that would sneak it’s way the U2 story, it was written from the viewpoint of a senior devil outlining the strategy for subverting the Church from within.
One of the most powerful schemes for doing this would be to make Christianity ‘privately engaging but socially irrelevant.’ Christians can have all the energy and resources that the Church can muster, which can be enormous, but if they spend all their time looking at themselves rather than looking out, the devil will be pleased.
It’s why Christian singer Rich Mullins signed all his autographs ‘Be God’s.’ He was aware that people could ‘be good’ and still make the devil smile with their ineffectualness.”
~ Steve Stockman, from Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
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