Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
  • Scripture Exposition
    • The Program Unfolded
    • The Program Illustrated
    • The Program Perpetuated
  • Practical Application
    • We Must Go Individually
    • We Must Go Systematically
  • Satanic Opposition
    • How Satan Hindered the Divine Program
    • How Satan Keeps the Divine Program Hindered
• The Divine Purpose
• The Divine Power
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

Satanic Opposition

Chapter III

The divine Program worked too well to suit Satan. It worked so well at the beginning of the Age that it took him well nigh two hundred years to work any hindrance to it. It worked so well that if he had not fought it with a substitute program, he could have retained at most but a small following among earth’s millions. So delay it he must, and delay it he finally did. We shall seek to find out how.

How Satan Hindered the Divine Program

The one thing, aside from the divine power, that made the program such a sweeping success was that every disciple was a witness; they were all propagandists. It was right here that Satan struck his blow.

The first thing he did was so to over-emphasize the distinctions in the divinely appointed division of service as finally to get an entirely equal witnessing brotherhood divided into two companies, with the great majority in one, and the small minority in the other. The small company came to be called “clergy,” and the large company “laity.” And then he worked the witnessing out of the hands of the “laity,” until it was finally regarded