"Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the devil are after it" ~ Charles Spurgeon

When I was a kid, long before there were smart phones or video games to keep children occupied all day, I'd play backyard football with my friends. One of the specific games we used to play was called "Fumble Rumble". In this game, one player would carry the football toward the goal line and literally everyone else on the field would be trying to get the ball from him. The result was usually a mad scrum while the ball-carrier held onto that football like his life depended on it. When we think of spiritual warfare with this analogy, it's easy to think we are the ball, the soul that God and the devil are after. But in reality, our faith in Christ is the ball, we are the ball-carrier, and the powers of the devil are everybody else trying to separate us from our faith. They don't want our faith, but they don't want us to have it either, for once we have lost sight of the victory in Jesus, it becomes much easier for them to attack our souls. This week at Friendship, we continue in the WAGING WAR series but pivot from the discussion on prayer to a direct discussion about "The War That Rages" all around us. If we understand the war, then we can understand how to be prepared to fight. We sincerely hope you will join us for this critical "briefing" before you head back out into the battlegrounds.