BOLDNESS;
COURAGE; DEFENSIVENESS

Why don’t we have the courage that belongs to our sound Christian faith? I cannot understand all of this ignoble apologizing and the whipped-dog attitude of so many professing Christians!…

But many Christians spend a lot of time and energy in making excuses, because they have never broken through into a real offensive for God by the unlimited power of the Holy Spirit! The world has nothing that we want—for we are believers in a faith that is as well authenticated as any solid fact of life. The truths we believe and the links in the chain of evidence are clear and rational. I contend that the church has a right to rejoice and that this is no time in the world’s history for Christian believers to settle for a defensive holding action!

Romans 1:14–16; 2 Timothy 1:7, 12; 2 Timothy 4:1–5; 1 Peter 1:3–5

I Call It Heresy!, 28.