Posted on 06/10/2019 10:20:46 PM PDT by robowombat
Anyhow, Islam is a challenge tailor made, as it were, for being faced down with gospel power. But it can’t be a wimpy echo of gospel power. Maybe the Crusades came the closest to the ideal in recent memory, but they had the baggage of institutional religion to deal with once the victories had been achieved. Imagine sending the Green Berets to win a victory and then handing control over to Jimmy Carter. Something is lost in that picture. Christianity has to carry on as a whole if it is to carry the most effective blessings of God in this world.
... and we don’t have a church-government structure to launch something like the Crusades in its power anyhow. If we want to see such gospel powered boldness, we must look to the private realm of missionaries today.
Frankly, I believe a whole lot could be done in that wise. I believe in it. We sometimes enclose the Lion of Judah in a cage that he never had to be forced to live in.
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