Screwtape Letters

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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 18 August 2026. The book comes up at 52 min 37 sec in.

Aaron Graham quotes C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters to illustrate the lie that church is optional. He cites the devil character Screwtape advising that the next best thing to keeping people out of church is to send them searching for the perfect one, turning them into critics rather than pupils — the very dynamic Graham sees enabling church-shopping culture.

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