Satan sneers at our schemes, mocks our methods, laughs at our learning, but is paralyzed by our praying.1 This awareness of what our strength is and what it is not gives us our direction in the violent atmosphere of spiritual warfare in which we live. We cannot be salt and light and leaven to a world in despair by using tricks and methods that are at best ineffective. Questionable religious schemes always produce spurious results, the ecclesiastical equivalent of rearranging the chairs on the Titanic,