"It is the very order of things that so must it be. Truth could not be truth in this world if it were not a warring thing, and we should at once suspect that it were not true if error were friends with it. The spotless purity of truth must always be at war with the blackness of heresy and lies .
...Until the second advent, the Church must be the Church militant, the Church armed, the Church warring and the Church conquering".
--- C. H. Spurgeon
There is no demilitarized zone. Every zone is the go-zone. To preserve the relevancy of the truth, it demands that the Church must contend for the truth and remain aggressively armed, ceaselessly.
Aggression here is active and progressive as well as offensive.
Been a teen Christian on campus can be lonely and loaded with all kinds of pressures. Professing Christianity as a teen can therefore become aggressively offensive to some , if of course you are truly standing for the truth and maintaining a testimony amongst classmates and peers.
Even though conformity breeds peace, this peace is not peaceful. True peace resides in the Truth. Standing true demands contending...
Anything else attracts crippling conformity of identity crisis and an eventual lost to personal values and testimony. The war is to stay true to your new identity in Christ.
Every Christian teen is pressured to conform. The pressure to conform is incessant. It will never stop! But it should never stop us!
Post-modernization has never brought a cessation to the battle between conformity and true Christianity. To think so, you are already deceived.
Think about your days as a Christian in your high school. Remember your days standing as that lone Bible totter in your neighborhood or classroom.
Has peer pressure ceased?
Oh then been a Christian has...
Has the pressure to fit stopped?
Oh then opposing forces to truth has...
Truth lives!
So the crisis teens face at school, at home and in their neighborhoods manipulate and demand their loyalty.
Therefore at Sober Watchman Ministries camp, we evoke the spirit of the warring Christian and challenge students to:
Radically stand up for and with the truth as they witness personally through their lives and speech.
Remain different and avoid strange fires.
Be the influence and not the influenced by staying the head and not the tail with excellent grades, good conduct and a fearless Christian lifestyle.
Beginning this October, we are giving everyone the opportunity to be a part of the ministry's effort to challenge teens in West Africa to be the influence and not the influenced.
To share your gifts this camp season, contact SWM at soberwatchmanministries@yahoo.com and retain Sober Watchman Ministries staff, students, campus presidents, campus ministry and neighborhood fellowships in your prayers.
Or call Lucia Shafah at 2629149836.
1 comment:
The word INFLUENCE means a lot to me. My christian life started as a result of one influential person at school-Alexander Kollie. His unspoken influence drew me from the back of the classroom where all the bad guys hang-up to the front where Alex worshipped God in silence and read his blue Gideon Bible. And how has that affected my own life? From Monrovia to New York, my desire for outreach has lead me to drug dealers and users, homeless people,and muslims. My platform includes: buses, subways,street corners, and ferry boats. Influence is like the cold flu. When you have it, other people around you will surely get it. But in order to share your flu, one must cough. Like wise, in order to influence others, one must do or say something. I love to be influenced by important people. But most of all, I love to influence people for Christ.
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