Monday 29 October 2007

warfare

I was at a meeting last night... and they were talking about warfare... that we are in war, and we have to fight....
They were saying that we can fight in a physical and spiritual way...
the physical which they descibed was helping on the soup run, helping with the coffee mornings, and different ways in the community services that the corps provide...
All they said about spiritual warfare, is that to be strong we have to read our bible and pray...
We were told that we are to Go.... in the Great commission Jesus told us to Go and make disciples baptising in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
next we were told the church didn't do that, and that was the reason why we have warfare, why we have to fight... But i don't really agree with this.... Cause we don't fight against flesh and blood, but our fight is a spiritual one... satan is always attacking in different ways, (or trying to at least), warfare is going on when we follow Jesus, until He returns... However we have the Victory with Christ...

Jesus said that they will know that we are His disciples by the way we love each other (John 13:34-36). And also in Mark 16:17-19:

17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."

that to me sounds like warfare..... However a lot of the church in the western world don't live up to this.... We need to step it up... to step out in Faith, and live this out... Imagine the impact on this world if we all lived in such a way that theses signs accompanied us...

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