I heard something simple, yet profound today

People dealing with spiritual warfare often go directly Ephesians 6, and deal with the armor of God. I've been guilty of this concept: I "put" on the armor and believe it's something like a magical force field that keeps me away from any harm, or any battle. That as if putting the armor on takes us out of the fight of spiritual warfare. Scripture doesn't teach this. Ephesians 6:11 says "Put on the whole armor of God, that you might be able to stand against the schemes of the Devil." The reality is that the Scriptures teach battle is a sure thing. Paul knows we'll fight against Satan, he's just trying to teach us how we "might be able to stand" against him. Wow! So for all of us that think simply memorizing Ephesians 6 is like an immunity pill, then we are in for a rough awakening when Satan is still beating on our armor...I always picture armor like a knight like in the movie Knight's Tale with Heath Ledger. Even though they wore armor it still hurt to get knocked off the horse. This is what Paul is teaching us. Mount up, and suit up, because this is still going to hurt, I'm just showing you how to survive it.

I don't have my journal handy

So tell me if I'm type A after reading this: I have 3 journals. 1.) It's for what God's doing in my life, personal events, frustrations, and in the very general sense a journal 2.) My second journal is where I take notes that I like when listening to good preaching, and or when I want to remember something from God's word, or a sermon idea 3.) My 3rd journal is a way to catalogue my highlighted passages in any books I'm reading...Wow even writing that makes me feel a little OCD.

Right now I have something cool that God gave me, but I don't have access to any of them so I'll just use this blog as an entry for journal number 2:

I grew up hearing "this is the church, this is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people (imagine the hand gestures)

-This fundamental flaw of theology misses the point that the church isn't a building. We are the church! When we reduce the bride of Christ to a man made structure we are replacing the true church with something created by man.The irony is that the only thing created to reflect God is man, and by making His church about something we've created, it's like were saying "nice try God, but..." See how this idea is dangerous, and needs to be fixed?