A Battlefield Of The Mind: Battling Lies With The Truth Of The Christian Worldview

We raise our weapons and rally against the night. It's coming you know. It's here. And we face it at every turn. Battle after battle, clash after clash. We seem so weak at times, we seem so vulnerable. While the enemy marches on us with ten thousand veteran troops, we seem to rally with a handful of tattered, broken young boys and old men, armed with rusty weapons and meager defenses. Too often it seems like the battle of helms deep, too many orcs, not enough defenders at the castle, and terrified leaders. But then again, sieges can always be turned.

The institutions of the west have been conquered, twisted, and re-oriented to attack the founding principles. Academia, Hollywood, late night talk shows, news media, public education, universities, government bureaucracies, newspapers, big business entities, and internet have all embraced counter-american values and now actively seek to brainwash the young, subvert traditional values, fundamentally transform america, and embrace secular ethics. Don't get me wrong, there are many institutions, businesses, news sources, and internet outlets that fight against this agenda. But for the most part, the vast majority of the entrenched institutions are controlled by a secular progressive elite. But what become clear several months ago is that the american people, the everyday average joes across the nation do not agree with or support this agenda. In fact there is a growing rage against it.

So there is great reason to be hopeful. My primary concern is to carry the gospel to lost people. But my secondary concern is to help uphold culture, politics, and society. That's why I discuss both together. We as Christians, as the church on Earth are called to both carry the gospel and uphold society. Yes, politics is messy. Culture is messy. Most Christians just throw up their arms and try to stay out of it. I can't do that, because I know I'm called to interact in both the spiritual realm and the physical realm. All these things are intertwined. Simply saying that "politics, religion, and ideology" are all bad is just stupid. All of these things are interrelated, and all of them affect each other. So I simply attempt to carry the gospel to the lost of this world, and uphold society by sharing biblical values based around liberty and choice in politics, philosophy, and government.

We exist on a perpetual battlefield. This is a war. And we are soldiers. We don't fight with weapons. Instead, we fight with ideas. We demolish false pretensions, lies, and stacked up ideologies that attempt to circumvent the truth.

Has that concept been lost? Maybe it has to a certain extent. Though I see great reason for hope. There are so many things happening that never make the news. So many Christian ministries serving day and night, yet they never make the news. There are so many activists out there sharing Christianity, sharing Jesus, and taking a stand for religious freedom. It's a blossoming time for evangelical Christianity, and biblical values in modern culture. Things are really changing, for the better, I hope.

The struggle remains day and night. It continues in our lives. We all have are regions and sectors of the world, the areas where we're called to serve. We serve in small towns, medium sized cities, regions, like the midwest, the east, the south, and so on and so forth. It's an honor, really it is. To have been selected for this mission by God, before the foundations of the Earth, to do this, to be loved by Him, is an honor beyond measure. I hope you carry it with you, within you, as love that holds you in times of difficulty.

It makes sense doesn't it? Yes indeed it does. God is good. He calls us to much action, and much boldness. We are called to dangerous faith, faith that acts in desperate situations. But the world is always coming to the brink. This isn't a new phenomenon. It has happened time and again throughout human history. The narrative of man improving himself and the woes and failures of the past being gone, giving way to a bright altruistic modernism is simply false. The 20th century was the worst yet as far as violence, war, genocide, and famine are concerned. Humanity hasn't changed. We haven't "evolved" beyond petty rivalries and power struggles. There are just craftier ways of taking power and wealth today than in the past. So be it. Society comes to the brink, God rallies a few heroes to restore order. It has happened and will happen again. There is nothing new under the sun.

Be a channel for the Lord's work to be done. Don your spiritual armor and stand against the mobs of hysterical secular revolutionaries. Prepare the way for the Lord. Plant the seeds of salvation through the witness of His power in your life and affairs.