Our Lord made discipleship hard and lost many prospective followers because he called them to a pilgrimage, not a parade - to a fight, not to a frolic. ~Vance Havner
When Vance said Jesus called us to a fight… He meant a fight with the devil. A fight with ourselves and sin wanting to master us. Today, Christians think our fight is in politics, against homosexuality, against schools, against the sinful culture… Notice that Jesus did not take on sinful secular culture. He took on sinful religion. -D. McLean
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12
