Yesterday was Laity Sunday at our church, and we had three incredible messages, I was really blessed! In the first service, my dear sister Brenda Will spoke about controlling our thoughts. She made reference to a passage in 2 Corinthians that got me reading.
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Can you feel that power? We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God...
We do not have to make weak cases for Christ. God does not leave us hanging by our own logic. We don't have to be bashed by arguments against the faith.
We demolish them.
Remembering always, that we demolish arguments but we build relationships.
We demolish arguments but we build up people.
We demolish arguments but we build up the body.
We demolish arguments but we love with the Love of God.
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Questions:
1. How do we demolish arguments?
2. Is it possible to demolish and build at the same time?
3. Might some of the arguments to be demolished be our own?
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“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.” Samuel Chadwick
"When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."C.S. Lewis
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