Heard someone speaking on a Christian radio program. It may have been Focus on the Family, but I’m not sure.
He talked about how Christians have retreated from standing up for themselves in this culture, not to mention how we don’t even carry out The Great Commission of winning people to Jesus.
He said we gotta get in the game.
To destroy the fears that we Christians have while just thinking of doing this in our current culture, he said we should think of ourselves as football players.
Football players enter the game knowing they will hit and get hit. It’s just the nature of the game. However, they are in it to win.
We Christians must enter the culture war with the same mindframe, because getting hit is in the nature of this game, but it’s mainly about winning. In this case, winning back souls.
The guy ephasized though that we must do so according to Jesus’s principles: Play the game out of compassion.
Such a great encouraging way of viewing our walk with Christ.
Love your post.
Exactly right.
Time to put on the helmet of salvation!
Great metaphor. And even better, the Christian team is promised a GUARANTEED VICTORY.