tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904131557407437280.post1205912481278254697..comments2024-03-01T06:37:23.016-07:00Comments on Daniel and Friends: Where The Battle?Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08108247085183735564noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904131557407437280.post-62248522451256842492010-10-24T04:35:22.475-07:002010-10-24T04:35:22.475-07:00Hi Daniel
This is a great question and a great to...Hi Daniel<br /><br />This is a great question and a great topic. Not too long ago I was reading an account of a gathering of pastors in Holland. The leader of the group was leading a discussion of underground church work in hostile countries. In walked a pastor who had been imprisoned for many years for Christ and severely beaten many times. As he entered, the room fell silent. He looked at the pastor leading the discussion and asked "Brother, how many pastors are in prison in Holland?" The pastor answered "None that I know of." To which the persecuted brother responded, "Why not?" <br /><br />It is another, albeit a bit more pointed, way of asking the same question. To this general topic an AR I am training recommended and sent me a book, "Radical", by David Platt. VOM Books has recently started carrying the book and I do recommend it. It is written in the same vein as your recommendation "Trellis and the Vine", but with a bit different focus.<br /><br />That said, I think the reason we personally see so little spiritual warfare in the US is because we are not engaged in the culture. One of the ARs, who is temporarily in Washington, D.C. commented that only about 10% there are Christian. A local judge, who is also a strong Christian, addressed our church a few years back. The thrust of his message was that we do not know or see what is going on around us.<br /><br />My take is we work at living in a sanitized environment. Ozzie and Harriet would be very comfortable in what most of us call our life. Yet like in the story of the Good Samaritan we pass by the needs that are around us. Unlike those however, we don't just ignore, we have trained ourselves not to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com