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Phelan Chapel - Strategies to keep from falling 03

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 Regularly rehearsing the consequences. I met with a man who had been a leader
in a Christian organization until he  fell into immorality. I asked him, "What
could have been done to prevent this?"

 He paused for only a moment,  then said with haunting pain and precision, "If
only I had really known, really  thought through, what it would cost me and my
family and my Lord, I honestly believe I never would have done it."
 In  the  wake  of  several  Christian  leaders' falling  into  immorality,  a
co-pastor and  I developed a list  of specific consequences  that would result
from our  immorality. The list (see  article, "The Real and  Untold Cost") was
devastating,  and to  us  it spoke  more  powerfully than  any  sermon on  the
subject.

 Periodically, especially  when traveling  or in a  time of weakness,  we read
through  the list.  In  a tangible  and  personal way,  it  brings home  God's
inviolate  law  of  choice  and   consequence,  cutting  through  the  fog  of
rationalization and  filling our hearts  with the healthy,  motivating fear of
God.

 Winning the battle

 In  J.R.R. Tolkien's  book,  The  Hobbit, there  was  no  one seemingly  more
invincible than Smaug,  the mighty dragon. But then  that unlikely hero, Bilbo
Baggins, found one small weak spot in Smaug's underbelly. That information, in
the hands  of a  skilled marksman, was  all it  took to  seal the doom  of the
presumptuous  dragon.   Unaware  of  his  weakness   and  underestimating  his
opponents, Smaug  failed to protect himself.  An arrow pierced  his heart, and
the dragon was felled.

 An  exciting story  with a  happy ending.  But when  it's a  Christian leader
felled, the ending is  not so happy. It's tragic. The  Evil One knows only too
well the weak spots of the  most mighty Christian warriors, not to mention the
rest of us. He isn't one to waste his arrows, bouncing them harmlessly off the
strongest plates of our spiritual armor.
 His aim is deadly, and it  is at our points of greatest vulnerability that he
will most certainly attack.

 We are in battle--a battle far  more fierce and strategic than any Alexander,
Hannibal, or Napoleon ever fought. We  must realize that no one prepares for a
battle of which he is unaware, and  no ones wins a battle for which he doesn't
prepare.

 As we  hear of Christian  leaders succumbing to  immorality, we  must not say
merely, "There,  but for  the grace of  God, I  might have gone,"  but rather,
"There, but for  the grace of God--and  but for my alertness  and diligence in
the spiritual battle--I mayyet go."
 Randy C.  Alcorn is  director of  Eternal Perspective Ministries  in Gresham,
Oregon.

 Copyright(c) 1996 by Christianity  Today, Inc./LEADERSHIP journal Summer 1996
Vol.XVII, No.3, Page 47

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