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Discipleship: When and how do we address the teaching of Satan and evil?

As C. S. Lewis writes in the preface to The Screwtape Letters, “There are two and equal opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”

The question for us, as leaders in the Evangelical Free Church of America, lies in timing: When and how do we address the teaching of Satan and evil?

Please read the rest of the article at EFCA Now.

Greg Strand

Greg Strand is the EFCA executive director of theology and credentialing, and he also serves on the EFCA Board of Ministerial Standing and Spiritual Heritage Committee. He and his wife, Karen, are members of Northfield EFC in Northfield, Minnesota.

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