Spiritual Warfare

We were blessed at Fairview this weekend to have Dr. Chuck Lawless of Southern Seminary to conduct a Spiritual Warfare conference on Saturday and to preach in our morning service on Sunday. If you ever have a chance to hear him, take the opportunity. Some of the quotes that I wrote down from this weekend are:

• We do not wrestle against flesh and blood. Thus our enemies are not other people.
• If a church has no strategy for equipping new believers, why would God entrust that church with new babes in Christ?"
• The Christian life is a life of joy but not without conflict.
• Are we a church that threatens the enemy?

And this one was an "Oh Me" moment: "The reason some new believers' fire goes out is that they hang around us [meaning other Christians] too much."

In Sunday's service, Dr. Lawless preached an outstanding sermon on quote four above. His text was Acts 19, but I'll leave that for another entry. I will say that I've seldom seen a work of God greater than when the invitation was given in the morning service today. God moved in an unusually powerful way. There is no question that this weekend, planned many months ago, was used by God to do the business in our church that needed to be done. To Him be the glory!