Ready Aim Fire

I ask you just how hard is it to be a card-carrying Christian these days?& I mean we’ve got card carrying Democrats and Republicans.& You can get a membership card for every organization from the NAACP to the ACLU.& The more I study the more I’m moved to realize that being a professed, in the spirit card-carrying man or woman of faith, is tantamount to putting a bullseye on your back and inviting a artillery barrage on your location.& Scripture tells us that accepting Jesus Christ as a way of life was no easy task for early practitioners of faith.& Being criticized,thrown to the lions for fun and games, beheaded or ostracized were all very real possibilities for those who believed and then lived according to& the Word of God.& Is today so different?& Once you take up the standard of revolutionary thinking, once you commit your life to Christ, once you decide to live humbly in mercy and love and forgiveness isn’t it interesting the kind of attention you attract.& “Be self-controlled and alert.& Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.& Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know...