Last year, a mission team intercepted the following communications regarding their trip to Mexico. It appears to be from Diablo to a younger devil, trying to attack and derail the mission team... We better take note that we don't fall into some of the same traps they tried on this team...
from: sr_diablo@hell.net
to: lucifrito@sector6.mex
date: March 15 subject: Alert and Re-deployment
My Dearest Lucifrito,
Word has reached our office from the North American command that a despicable little team of pimpled teenagers—and the adult buffoons who lead them—are headed into one of our sectors in northern Mexico.
Their sojourn will occur during what the Christian humans call "Holy Week" (yes, a time of seasonal depression for us). I am therefore requesting you temporarily to redirect your efforts. Put on hold fomenting reprisal executions among drug traffickers and focus on the work of this group. It should prove a welcome respite from your ordinary labors, and indeed I have decided to count it against your vacation time.
Jerry seems to genuinely believe that churches are things created from building materials. Of course, you must deepen this shallow view.
These missioners originate from the Glad Tidings Bible Church of Tuscaloosa. They want to build a church near one of the sectors you patrol. The construction is to be led by a middle-aged civil engineer named Jerry, who despite years of time logged in the Enemy's camp, seems to genuinely believe that churches are things created from building materials, and that the more resistant walls are to seismic tremor (I speak in the physical sense here), the sounder the church. Of course, you must deepen this shallow view. The "church-as-building" view has proven notoriously effective over the centuries at distracting these people from real church—the community of "love" and "service" (horrid thoughts)—the Enemy wants them to build.
Encourage Jerry to hold his convictions to the point of dispute with the other adult leaders. They unfortunately may attempt to refocus the efforts of the group to the nurture of individuals. Indeed as Jerry slams bullheadedly into the project and barks out commands from his scaffold, lead him to feel two things: (1) convinced that the project must be completed and with excellence above all else (even if relationships must temporarily suffer), and (2) a profound sense of pride in the project. Nurture the thought in him that none of the locals could have ever been capable of such an engineering marvel. The desire to be indispensable has lured many a missioner into the field, and we have frequently been able to exploit such bent motivations for our Eternal Purposes.
What is even more fortunate (as relayed to me by the North American command) is that the idea to build the church was Jerry's. Indeed, real change—at least of any kind we might be concerned about—nearly always germinates from ideas the Enemy reveals directly to people in the villages themselves. Whatever you do, do not allow the missioners to nurture any of the villagers' own dreams that the Enemy might have given them. Indeed it is essential that the group forcefully articulate its ideas while gently, but patronizingly, disregarding any ideas from the villagers themselves. Get them to reason, After all, isn't that why they are poor?
P.S. Inform Nuñez in the Tijuana sector that I must speak with him immediately about his failure to forestall the implementation of pollution-control infrastructure on the border factories. Is there no greater joy than witnessing the birth of a disfigured human child?
Encouragingly,
Diablo
Their sojourn will occur during what the Christian humans call "Holy Week" (yes, a time of seasonal depression for us). I am therefore requesting you temporarily to redirect your efforts. Put on hold fomenting reprisal executions among drug traffickers and focus on the work of this group. It should prove a welcome respite from your ordinary labors, and indeed I have decided to count it against your vacation time.
Jerry seems to genuinely believe that churches are things created from building materials. Of course, you must deepen this shallow view.
These missioners originate from the Glad Tidings Bible Church of Tuscaloosa. They want to build a church near one of the sectors you patrol. The construction is to be led by a middle-aged civil engineer named Jerry, who despite years of time logged in the Enemy's camp, seems to genuinely believe that churches are things created from building materials, and that the more resistant walls are to seismic tremor (I speak in the physical sense here), the sounder the church. Of course, you must deepen this shallow view. The "church-as-building" view has proven notoriously effective over the centuries at distracting these people from real church—the community of "love" and "service" (horrid thoughts)—the Enemy wants them to build.
Encourage Jerry to hold his convictions to the point of dispute with the other adult leaders. They unfortunately may attempt to refocus the efforts of the group to the nurture of individuals. Indeed as Jerry slams bullheadedly into the project and barks out commands from his scaffold, lead him to feel two things: (1) convinced that the project must be completed and with excellence above all else (even if relationships must temporarily suffer), and (2) a profound sense of pride in the project. Nurture the thought in him that none of the locals could have ever been capable of such an engineering marvel. The desire to be indispensable has lured many a missioner into the field, and we have frequently been able to exploit such bent motivations for our Eternal Purposes.
What is even more fortunate (as relayed to me by the North American command) is that the idea to build the church was Jerry's. Indeed, real change—at least of any kind we might be concerned about—nearly always germinates from ideas the Enemy reveals directly to people in the villages themselves. Whatever you do, do not allow the missioners to nurture any of the villagers' own dreams that the Enemy might have given them. Indeed it is essential that the group forcefully articulate its ideas while gently, but patronizingly, disregarding any ideas from the villagers themselves. Get them to reason, After all, isn't that why they are poor?
P.S. Inform Nuñez in the Tijuana sector that I must speak with him immediately about his failure to forestall the implementation of pollution-control infrastructure on the border factories. Is there no greater joy than witnessing the birth of a disfigured human child?
Encouragingly,
Diablo
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