Learning to fight like Paul

How should a church or pastor respond to smears and lies about its activities and beliefs? We should first throw out the window what would be our knee jerk responce to act in some way that our culture thinks is christian. Just nail ourselves to a cross and apologize all over the place because someone was disturbed by what we believe or think. Especialy if it is as a result of speaking or acting on biblical truth.

The apostle Paul showed the way with this. He never hesitated to use all legal means to frustrate those who opposed him and the gospel. The fact that most christians would be troubled with the idea of frustrating the enemies of christ is a sign of how much our thinking is captive to the culture and not Gods word.

Doug Wilson and Christs church in Idaho know what its like to live your faith, to take the gospel to all areas of life and so has drawn the wrath of those who hate our Lord. We are not attacked because we are just learning how to apply our fatih consistantly. But We will be attacked as our consistancy grows.

So as show prep it would be good to see what has happened to others and to observe how you can use the internet and current laws to defend and even advance the gospel in the face of resistance.

Wilson has a long string of archived blogs called Moscow Diversity Cleansing that can be read, laughed at and learned from. It will be good mental prep for what will surely come, if not to us , maybe to a ministry known to us. Start at the bottom of the page and work up. Its a lot of postings so consider it a semester course in wisdom application.

An example would be the christian counselors here in AZ that are being attacked by the state board.