Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism

by Jim Wilson

Because the commandments of God are way beyond us—ideals that are not very realistic for the present—we make a graded scale and challenge Christians to follow the graded scale one step at a time. This is because we do not believe God provides the power and love and wisdom to obey His superlative commands as they are given. And since He does not provide, we decide we will dispense with the obedience, which is frustrating, and do it our way: challenge-volunteer. If we volunteer for less than the commandment requires, we are disobedient, even if we gain our objective.

Christ. A challenge is an appeal to the pride, to human ego. The challenge is doubly wrong: It puts people on the foreign field who should be there, but it gets them there with a wrong motive. It puts people there who should not be there.

how do we get so that we willingly obey? It all has to do with our view of the Commander. Do we worship Him, stand in awe of Him, love Him, fear Him, long to be with Him? Or are we buddy-buddy with Him?