"The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist, as educated people have finished with stake-burning, circuses and torture racks. No martyr's blood is shed in the secular west, so long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace on her modern reservation.” 

“Let the babes pray and sing, and read their Bibles, continuing steadfastly in their intellectual retardation; the church's extinction will not come by sword or pillory, but by the quiet death of irrelevance. But let the church step off the reservation, let her penetrate once more the culture of the day and the. . . face of secularism will change from a benign smile to a savage snarl."

R. C. Sproul, John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley

We have all been witnesses to the “savage snarl” of secular humanism (the devil) as we have allowed the theology of the church to become biography in the streets. So long as we remained in the church house we were treated with a patronizing and condescending smile. The enemy knew we were no danger to him, for we would never dare unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit. But, when we came out of the closet in Jesus' Name and that Sword was unsheathed, all hell broke loose and all heaven came down.

We have been tossed in jail, sued for millions, vilified by the media, vilified by the church, and hated by the world. We are off the reservation and have no intention of going back. As a matter of fact, we aren't allowed to go back. Thank God that we don't go alone – Jesus is with us. The gates of hell cannot prevail!

In Christ we stand,

Flip