In the tumultuous terrain of today's cultural and spiritual landscape, Bible-believing Christianity stands besieged by an onslaught of ideologies that not only contradict but audaciously challenge its core tenets. While it’s tempting to look at our enemies as ones whom we’d rather not share this planet with, we must remember that we were put here for that very purpose. When we were saved, God could have just raptured us out of this world and immediately into His presence. Instead, he left us with a ministry—a ministry of reconciliation that calls us to look retrospectively at ourselves and say “there, but for the grace of God, go I.”
We are undoubtedly called to wage war, though, as it is waged against us. Yet this relentless warfare is not waged with weapons of steel or gunpowder, but we battle against seductive worldly ideas and philosophies, cunningly designed to undermine the very foundation of Christian truth. It's a war where the battleground is the human mind and the spoils are the convictions of people and their eternal souls. We are in a war for truth.
The ramparts of our world are extravagantly coated with a myriad of deceptions propagated by the left, encompassing not only such trendy codswallop as transgenderism, Critical Race Theory, and feminism, but also extending to the normalization of abortion, the assault on the family, and the relentless push for secularism that seeks to expunge faith from the public square. These are mere manifestations of postmodernism—boys can be girls, unborn children are expendable commodities, and two men can purchase a catalog baby from a surrogate. And if you don’t like it, keep your mouth shut or you’ll be punished.
These lies represent not just passing social trends but calculated strategies in this ideological battle. These movements, far from being benign societal developments, are in truth artful machinations of those who stand in rebellion against God. They are the crafty concoctions of the father of lies, Satan himself, each a crafty strand in a web spun to entangle and subvert the truth of God's Word. Whether it be a blatant denial of God's design in creation, a secular narrative that undermines biblical unity and forgiveness, or a challenge to the divine order, advocating for a brand of autonomy that is starkly at odds with the selfless love and mutual submission taught in Scripture, all of these lies are a direct affront to the Creator.
Yet amidst these towering waves of ideological oppression, a disturbing trend has emerged within the Church—a trend towards passivity and complacency, mistakenly heralded as peace-keeping virtues. This confused perception of peace has led many to believe that inaction or a lukewarm response is the Christian way, a means to maintain a fragile truce between God and the rebel. But let us not be deceived. While God is indeed a God of peace, He is not a proponent of passivity. He does not call His people to a life of comfortable neutrality in the face of spiritual warfare.
The Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, lays bare the nature of our calling in this cosmic conflict. We are not summoned to take up arms in a conventional sense, to pick up guns and bombs, to engage in physical combat with those who hate us. Rather, our battle is one of intellect and spirit, a call to wield the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, in the demolition of fortresses of falsehood. Our weapons are not of this world, for they have divine power to demolish strongholds, arguments, and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. This is no mere academic exercise—it's an aggressive, active engagement in the battle for truth.