Danger of Rejecting Warfare
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 1:56 pm
As we know, one of the defining issues of Anabaptism is the rejection of participation in warfare. And this warfare is generally speaking of any form of violence between human beings. However, I'm wondering if this belief in pacifism has a tendency to diminish our talking in terms of warfare that we Christians are at war daily with 3 major enemies - the world, the flesh and the devil.
Much attention to the Charlottesville occurrence has been given on various threads and today's sermon got me thinking this morning about the application of Ephesians 6 to our reactions to this occurrence and the varied news takes on what really did happen. Has this Charlottesville occurrence been viewed as a spiritual fight for us ?
Here is an article that reminds us of our 3 big enemies and warring against them
http://biblehelpsinc.org/publication/th ... tian-life/
How influenced am I being by worldly thinking (i.e. force, greed, ambition), my flesh (i.e. pride, malice, strife) and the deceptive ways satan (i.e. craftiness, lies, discord) that he uses in these occurrences against me ?
Do I see this topic as an area of spiritual warfare ? If viewed more this way might it assist in being able to love those who war from a physical perspective as well as how we handle any skirmishes we have with each other on the topic ?
Christianity is an on-going battleground that requires us to be well trained and equipped to fight off the enemies of our souls. What do you think ? Are we looking at things too much from a flesh and blood perspective ?
Much attention to the Charlottesville occurrence has been given on various threads and today's sermon got me thinking this morning about the application of Ephesians 6 to our reactions to this occurrence and the varied news takes on what really did happen. Has this Charlottesville occurrence been viewed as a spiritual fight for us ?
Here is an article that reminds us of our 3 big enemies and warring against them
http://biblehelpsinc.org/publication/th ... tian-life/
How influenced am I being by worldly thinking (i.e. force, greed, ambition), my flesh (i.e. pride, malice, strife) and the deceptive ways satan (i.e. craftiness, lies, discord) that he uses in these occurrences against me ?
Do I see this topic as an area of spiritual warfare ? If viewed more this way might it assist in being able to love those who war from a physical perspective as well as how we handle any skirmishes we have with each other on the topic ?
Christianity is an on-going battleground that requires us to be well trained and equipped to fight off the enemies of our souls. What do you think ? Are we looking at things too much from a flesh and blood perspective ?