“Becoming The Valiant Christian”

You know Beloved, there are few things today that are as valuable as prudently selected words. Today we live in an environment where detractors and challengers are looking for reasons or justifications to be offended or upset. Today intrepid dialogue and pure, strong, and vibrant language has progressively evaporated.

But you know, this is nothing new to God’s people. God’s people aren’t protected from the trend of enforced interchange insolence. Many of us have felt the familiar pain of the injections from societal pressure that keeps us silent when we ought speak up, or round off our sharp edges of truth that cuts to the quick.

There are many of you craving to be courageous, pure, strong, and vibrant communicators of God’s Word, that have been virtually shut down often causing you to fall short.

Beloved, many of you (like myself) have been called to preach a gospel the world wants nothing to do with. We’ve been designated to be messengers of a message the world rejects and hates. At one time in my life I was constantly shut down, put down and repeatedly injected by enforced interchanged insolence. I prayed constantly asking God to help me cultivate the courage I needed to faithfully proclaim the truth and to fortify me against the societal, assembly – cliques and pressures that desires to keep me voiceless.

Beloved, as Christians we can’t be afraid of offending the world with the truth. “BUT”, don’t mistake that as an open door for disagreements or cavalier incivility. It’s not the work of the gospel if you’re looking to pick a fight. Instead, like John said, we need to cultivate a high view of Scripture, and take our boldness from our conviction that God’s truth alone can rescue sinners and save souls.