Thursday, May 27, 2010

Jerry Rankin and Spiritual Warfare


Over at his blog, Dr. Rankin has posted a couple of articles on spiritual warfare. Considering this guy has been leading the world's largest mission organization for the past several years, I am assuming he knows what he is talking about. Satan hates missions!


I think it would serve the church well to read and heed what Dr. Rankin writes and suggests.


You can read the first post here and the most recent post here.


From the first post:


"However, Satan has discovered that his most effective strategy is to attack the church—God’s people. If he can’t keep nations closed to the gospel, keep people groups hidden from our awareness or defeat the cause of Christ with persecution, all he has to do is to convince Christians that missions is optional and is only for an elite few who are called as missionaries. If he can get churches to become self-centered and ingrown to the neglect of missions, erode their faith and spiritual vitality, he has found a way to deprive God of being exalted and glorified among the nations.


"Satan is content for us to gather and worship in our isolated fortresses as long as we don’t live the kind of Christian life out in the marketplace that would attract people to Jesus Christ. As long as our witness doesn’t go beyond the parking lot, Satan’s dominions of darkness around the world are quite secure. It is so easy for him to convince us our only responsibility is our own community where we live, so we put most of our budget on nurturing and caring for the fellowship of the redeemed and there is not much left with which to do missions."

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