Battle Language: Doctrine

In the military tent, the soldiers are given their briefing. Delivered in precise, technical, specific terminology, every word and detail are of the utmost importance. This is war, after all.   This picture is consistent with the biblical portrait of the church—a church called to take up arms “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12). A daunting prospect, to be sure; impossible even, if not...