In his latest column on Townhall.com, senior pastor of Clash Christian Church in Miami, Fl. and radio show host Doug Giles challenges all of us Christians to stop being passive "seekers" and become dynamic "doers". I’ve excerpted a couple of paragraphs from the beginning and the end, so follow the link to get to the "meat", especially if you want to become a Pit Bull for Christ!

When you ask the average Joe today how he would describe a Christian, he’s likely to come back with a characterization of someone who is intellectually weak, physically out of shape, economically unproductive, morally spineless, and a constant complainer … sort of an insipid spiritual poodle. As far as most Christians go, it seems as if courage, brain cells and heroism are on the endangered species list.

None of the Church’s founders ever intended this sad state of affairs. God intended His believers—especially Christian leaders—to be spiritual warriors, to be pit bulls who smash demonic strongholds, stand for truth and bring life, light and healing to this great planet.

As I see it, a Christian without a Pit Bull Attitude is a Poodle Christian. What a terrible fate, to be a poodle Christian. A pit bull Christian is a hero and a champion, braver than the bravest, one who laughs at difficulties, dangers, and death. …

My ClashPoint is this: The Church would be helped immensely if more pastors were to spiritually breed for ecclesiastical and cultural courage instead of the Sunday morning poodle show. Hey, pastor: charge your people with joining the fight for our society, and discourage them from being dependent, spiritless little Fi-Fi’s.

May God give us an unworldly love for spiritual conflict. May God give us deep persistence and commitment so that no matter what demons we face, we will not be deterred from His high and lofty call. Oh, that there would be a people who embrace the struggle for that which is grand instead of looking for a place of ease inside the Christian Disneyland. "

That is certainly challenging! It’s encouraging to encounter beliefs this powerful, especially when you run across so many in your daily life that have no belief whatsoever, or believe in nothingness so passionately that they are anti-belief. The secular world view is growing stronger and wants to eliminate the ability of thinking secular thoughts. Fight the mind control. Fight back against the ACLU in its attempts to remove all religious discourse from the public square. Fight back against jihad-dhimmitude propaganda from a MSM that believes in nothing but pushing multiculturalism and anti-Judeo/Christian values.

Join the fight to protect America. Our grandfathers, fathers and uncles bled and died in WWI & WWII and our brothers and cousins died in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama & Grenada, and our sons, daughters, nieces and nephews in Beirut, Desert Storm, Somalia, Afghanistan, and currently in Iraq again, all to protect our way of life and to help bring the Spirit of Liberty to the rest of the world.

Satan, (yes, I believe that he is real), whispers in our ears that it’s OK to kick back, enjoy our freedoms without giving back. That it’s OK to be against everything that our country once stood for, because that is what all the dying was actually for — to insure our ability to protest, to be able to lie without recourse, to be able to rewrite history to suit our new found taste for the secular life. What a silver tonged rascal he is!

As Americans, we have a responsibility to not take our own freedoms and liberty for granted, and as Christians, we have the responsibility to not take our Salvation for granted — the price paid for all of them was much too high! . . . db

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