Defending Faith and Choosing Battles: Boldly Sharing God’s Word and Living the Gospel in a World of Opposition

1) The key component of DNA is, of course, drawing nearer to the Lord and always being ready to serve Him, which is a requirement for every believer. But we need to discuss in more depth the aspect of being ashamed, as the world is attacking every piece of Christian content, most specifically, the very words of God. The Gospel is our constitution, more important than any human constitution ever. We stand by faith in the B.I.B.L.E. God created the universe; He can write a book.

2) For our listening pleasure is understanding that we need to choose our battles carefully; not everything that you hear is something you need to defend or attack just because it goes contrary to your thinking and feeling. There needs to be a sense of wisdom about which hill to defend, which, of course, will always be Calvary.

3) I want to talk about something that scares quite a few Christians, and that is simply the idea of somebody sharing their testimony or sharing what God has done in their lives. I think there has been an overly weighted emphasis placed on the ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. It’s pretty clear that the purpose of these ministries (Eph. 4;11-12) is to equip the saints for the actual purpose of ministry. The saints are everyone who names the name of Jesus. Each one of us has the responsibility for some form of ministry.