Can accountability with other believers help strengthen us for spiritual warfare?
A lot of our battles have to do with relationships. That is why it is critical that every believer become a functioning part of a local church body where others also have a spiritual point of view. Then we can have meaningful relationships that reinforce our spiritual life. Q: In Ephesians 6, Paul talked about the necessity of putting on spiritual armor. How do we do that? A: Each piece of that armor is really a characteristic of Jesus Christ. To sum up the armor, it is Christ-likeness. To put on Christ-likeness is to say, “How am I to reflect Christ in this situation?” Once we implement the answer to that question, we are armored. It is a reflection of our spiritual relationship with the Savior. As we grow in that relationship and put it into action, we are arming ourselves for battle. Q: How do Christians appropriate the victory of Christ on the Cross for their personal lives? A: We must take the Cross out of a 2,000-year-old historical event and make it a contemporary reality. For m
