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Sometimes Paul’s letters read to me like a coach’s halftime speech. The game is tied, the teams are tired and the players need a reminder, a motivational at its core, to carry out the game plan successfully through the final stretch. In this, the second encouragement for Christians living at the end of the age, we read once more about hard fought engagement with the world. The spiritual imagery of battlefield dress conjurs up the full exhortation in Ephesians 6 to put on the armor of God. But for what purpose? To hold down the fort and guard against attack? No, to go on the offensive, carrying the Gospel of peace to a world enslaved to sin. Insofar as we have life, let us live as bold witnesses, faithful messengers of the Gospel of God in Jesus Christ. This sermon was preached by Clay Thompson on November 15th at St Jude’s Anglican Church in Huntersville, NC.
