我们渴望得到容易的答案，是要付上代价的，就是流于「轻忽」。轻忽，就是我们轻易地接受对问题的解释，而忽略了生命的难题，为的是要从疑惑中得到释放。我认为这其实是现代教会的咒诅。

「轻忽」的态度所以能够获得大家的接受，是因为它让人以为基督徒的困难主要是撒旦的破坏。撒旦的活动不错可以是困难的来源（特别是那些玩弄巫术的人），但并不是主要原因。新约圣经教导我们属灵争战的重要性，但对于我们肉体本性对问题的产生和发展的影响，新约同样有很多的教导。

在我事奉的初期，每当有人带着问题来找我的时候，我往往会谴责撒旦，而那些祷告也常常能够给他们带来很大的释放。然而我所犯的错误，是没有与求助者坐下来认真处理在生命的表层以下、那些给撒但留下立足点的问题。我完全忽视了问题的症结，以为撒旦是问题唯一的关键。明显的，要坐下来对撒旦「行使权力」，比思考问题的困难，以及从圣经的角度来寻找解决方案更加容易（而且没那么困惑）。但如果我们要彼此帮助，认真的迈向成熟，后者的作法却是必须的。

There is a price to pay for our desire to grab at easy answers and that price is "trivialisation". Trivialisation is the acceptance of explanations that ignore the difficult questions of life in order to experience relief from confusion. I have no hesitation in saying that this is a curse of the modern Church.

One way trivialisation reveals itself is in the acceptance, by so many, of the view that the major cause of Christians' problems is demonic activity. Demonic activity can be a cause of problems (especially in those who have dabbled in the occult) but it is not the chief cause. The New Testament teaches us the importance of spiritual warfare, but it has much more to say about the influence of our carnal nature on the rise and development of problems.

In the early days of my ministry, when people came to me with problems I would frequently engage in the practice of rebuking the devil, and those prayers often brought great relief. But the mistake I made was not to sit down with the people who came to me and deal with the beneath-the-surface problems which had given Satan a foothold in their lives. By making it appear that Satan was the only problem I trivialised the issue. It's a lot easier (and less confusing) to sit down with a person and "take authority" over Satan than it is to think through together the tough and perplexing issues that lie beneath the surface, and then work towards giving some Biblical perspectives. But that is demanded of us if we are to help each other towards maturity.