Comments on: A Tactical Reassessment

By: Combat Readiness 7…Starting A Gang | A Sonny Disposition

Combat Readiness 7…Starting A Gang | A Sonny Disposition — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:33:18 +0000

[...] in what I labeled the Combat Readiness series. It originally started in a post entitled A Tactical Reassessment and was followed by Enemy Tactics. Then I divided it up into seven entries called Combat [...]

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:26:12 +0000

We are at war with the enemy. Everyday. My family has been going through some difficult things lately and it has been hard but I keep reminding myself that God loves me, will take care of me, and God will win in the end.

I started a jouneral almost a month ago and at first I was not sure why. Everyday I write in it about my day, how I feel about things, what chapters from the Bible I have read or will read that day, what I prayed for, and what I have to thank God for that day, and what verses I read for the day. Before I go to bed the last thing I try to read is my Bible. And the other day I finally noticed I am following Eph. 6:11, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devils’s schemes.” (NIV Student Bible) By writing about my day, praying to God, and reading the Word I let God know how much I need Him in my daily life and how much He means to me. That is fighting the devil and his schemes that try to corrupt my life. I do not always do great, I’m not perfect, but I know that God is there for me and will take care of anything that comes up. (By His will not mine.) I have also figured out His answers to thing I want or need are way better than my answers.

I am glad you wrote about this subject because it has been on my mind a lot these days. I have talked to others about it, at church and at home. Not only because of my own problems but because of the current events happening in the world today. Many people are not aware that a company has developed a microchip for the right hand or forhead that keeps up with your information, including your money, so you can use it to pay for things. Everyday the enemy changes and finds new ways into our own life but also the world views on things. I believe more people need to understand this and I thank you for pointing it out where many more can see it and have to think about it.

By: Red Rover, Red Rover

Red Rover, Red Rover — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:11:14 +0000

[...] friend of mine has recently posted a BLOG that has prompted me to think of the centrality of love in both the individual and the community. [...]

By: Combat Readiness 2…Now That’s Entertainment! | A Sonny Disposition

Combat Readiness 2…Now That’s Entertainment! | A Sonny Disposition — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:39 +0000

[...] originally talked about how it is time for us, the Church, to reassess our warfare tactics to bring them in line with the increasingly effective tactics of the enemy. Then we looked at [...]

By: Combat Readiness 1…Who loves ya, baby?

Combat Readiness 1…Who loves ya, baby? — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:32:12 +0000

[...] have written about the spiritual warfare we are all in and the tactics of our enemy here and here. In this post I want to take up the task of putting forth some ideas for change, in the [...]

By: Sonny

Sonny — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:12:23 +0000

I feel driven at the moment to say something that matters. I feel like some of us are screaming fire and a lot of people are just looking at us like we are idiots as the house burns down.

I had a small post in mind when I started this and it has grown into two long ones and I am not through yet. With the state of the world around us I feel a sense of urgency. As the battle intensifies, those that are not ready, will perish.

Combat readiness. The term for our times.

Thanks Shannon
Love you

By: Enemy Tactics

Enemy Tactics — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:30:05 +0000

[...] my last post I mentioned some things I believe the enemy has corrupted or even brought about to use in our [...]

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:57 +0000

“We have become in many ways the very thing our founders wanted liberation from” — This is a strong statement and, sad to say, one with which I have to agree. The passion and hunger for God over against the things of the world characterized many early Pentecostals. Their worldview was strongly shaped by the biblical narrative. And through such lenses they viewed the worldly system, material goods, their neighbors, poverty, pain, blessings, etc. The very Spirit whom they professed (in her ‘fullness’) was he who ministered to, in and from the margins of the empire.

Yet, today it seems that we have adopted (and adapted) the narrative of the empire – that of affluence, nationalism, individualization and the like. If such narrative(s) becomes the defining narrative by which we live (in lieu of the biblical narrative), then the Scriptures become a peripheral matter at best. Thus, your call rings critical in a time where a gruesome spiritual battle rages and many saints have not had “their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil” (Hebrews 5.14 ESV).

A while back, D and I went out to eat with some of her colleagues. The colleagues spoke of an on-line virtual world (WarCraft) in which they participated quite often. They spoke of this game and its characters as if it were truly a community in which they found identity. I was no doubt saddened by such. In light of this, your post prompted me to think whether our churches oftentimes do something similar. Do we create or adopt these secure (unbiblical) illusions (narratives) by which we assemble and from which we engage those around us? Such narratives which undermine the biblical narrative tend to encourage persons to be “spectators” of Kingdom-advancement rather than “participators” who are in-step with the Spirit.

Blessings to you and your family.