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This has been my fifth year teaching Principles of Spiritual Warfare at the Emmaus Biblical Seminary in Haiti. [links: 1 2 3] I'd like to invite you into the classroom and let you experience the adrenaline rush of teaching and the outrageous Joy of learning.

It seems to happen every year (five years running now). The class starts a little slowly as I try to feel my way around to determine where the students are and what they know. But in this instance slowly is nearly catastrophic. As the first week progresses I find myself increasingly behind schedule. And the farther behind I get, the faster, it seems, the end of the module approaches.

As of now I'm at least one full day of hard study behind. I don't like being behind though not nearly as much as I dislike being ahead of schedule. Being ahead of schedule gives me the distinct feeling that my students aren't "getting it" perhaps because they're not engaging me with questions. While being behind makes me realize I'm going to have to skip something and potentially something that may be very important in the long term.

Yesterday I mentioned that I really hadn't fallen into a rhythm with my translator Guenson. I am grateful for the many of you who are praying for this and I am equally happy to report that today was much better.

Finishing up worldview

We began with a devotional from Psalm 68:1-3 which highlights the power of God and then moved into completing the segment on worldview. After just a touch of review we discussed some specific examples concerning how the unbalanced supernaturalism of Haiti and the minimal supernaturalism of North America bring their own set of problems to our churches.
In Haiti as a general rule superstition is indiscriminately mixed with truth and trying to find the dividing line between one and the other is not often easy. The result is that some pastors think they know something of Spiritual warfare but by and large they do not; their perceptions are just as skewed as their American counterparts but in the other direction. Moreover the outright hopelessness which saturates so much of Haiti tends to transform the way evangelism and subsequent discipleship ministry is done here.

A very brief history of the demonic

Following the block on world view we delved into a very broad (and not very deep) overview of how the demonic was viewed not only by the Bible's human authors but on into early church. Tertullian for example (ca 160-225 AD) believed that everyone had a demon assigned to them; as a result it was fairly common to bring new believers through rites of deliverance from the demonic.

Thinking Like a Christian: Understanding and Living a Biblical Worldview asin: 0805438947

Thinking Like a Christian: Understanding and Living a Biblical Worldview : Teaching Textbook (Worldviews in Focus Series) author: David Noebel,Chuck Edwards asin: 0805438955

Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today's Competing Worldviews author: David A. Noebel asin: 0936163003

I bade farewell to a friend today, Bob Ewell who works with the navigators was here teaching principles of discipleship to the pastoral students at Emmaus Biblical Seminary. He had finished his two week module and was racing back home to be at another function on Friday. I pray he makes it.

I however was just starting out today. People here keep asking how the first day went and my answer is rather consistent: I'm not sure. Nothing went wrong, that's for certain but I haven't really clicked with my translator Guenson either. I will soon, I'm certain of that. I've worked with him before and he's very talented. The first day for me is a bit staccato. First there are brief introductions, then we go over the syllabus and eventually we try to start the class while I ask some questions and try to get a grip on where my students are at.

For the first portion of my Spiritual Warfare classes I start with some basic world view principles. North American Christians typically have a more naturalistic or perhaps I should say, minimally spiritualistic world view. Haitian Christians however have grown up in a culture that is saturated with spiritism. The reality of the matter is that North American Christians think too little of the demonic while Haitian Christians think too much of it. Neither is Biblically balanced and I try to fix that during the course.

Well here I go again. This year I'm taking my sixth trip to Haiti - that means I've gone often enough to get used to it and yet not often enough not to be a bit reticent.
My reticence this year is born of the food riots taking place in the western hemisphere's poorest country. I forget when I go to the grocery store and complain about paying twice as much for eggs and milk that the price of food in Haiti has dramatically increased already. It's not unusual for people to skip meals in that beautiful country; but not because they're fasting for spiritual renewal - they just can't afford to buy two cups of rice. So in massive protests the people in Haiti are burning tires, blocking roads and ... well... rioting. Mind you I think most of the rioting is actually happening in Port Au Prince. I've been in communication with a few folks that should know if there is a problem and I really do not have anything to worry about.

Today I've already had the pleasure of a slightly turbulent end to my last flight of the day and my back hurts. The first time you get on a plane it's exciting every time after that... not so much. There are few things I like less than just sitting still waiting for the next thing to happen. But when you're strapped into an airplane and sitting on the tarmac with absolutely no control over when you're leaving it can make a moderately spastic preacher get fidgety.

It's that time again. I'm making plans for my 2008 return to Haiti. I'm not leaving until April but that doesn't mean there's time to rest. On top of daily duties I'm revamping all of my Spiritual Warfare study notes (and redoubling my prayer effort). I welcome any prayers as it seems without fail that anytime I embark on this trip and these preparations the enemy attacks. Thanks be to God the victory is in the blood of Jesus Christ!

I've made this trip a number of times already, and I'm looking forward to meeting and praying with (and hopefully encouraging) the missionaries I serve with in that part of Haiti. They need as much encouragement as anyone if for no other reason than that they are human. My trip is relatively short it's over in three weeks but these folks are gone for a long time. If you know any missionaries why don't you stop right now and say a prayer for them.

Blessings.

Too Much Information.
It's the perennial problem of conferences and any brand of high intensity training. One speaker after another comes and tries to deliver the absolutely most information they can in the brief moment they've been given. It's not long before your fingers start to cramp from writing (or typing in my case) yet while you're trying to type and listen one of them invariably falls to the wayside. So I type a little, listen as much as possible and make notations on concepts that will hopefully enable me to come back later and solidify the learning, bringing it to a slightly more permanent place in my mind - so that it will be available to access when I need it.

About four or five years ago when I was preparing to teach principles of Spiritual Warfare in Haiti for the First time I was consulting dozens of resources and was getting more and more frustrated over the lack of Biblically accurate texts available on the topic. It seemed for a time that anytime the word demon was mentioned in a text it was either treated outrageously unbiblically or was quickly glossed over. There were a few resources which bucked this trend but not many.

Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus is a letter about being holy even if you live in a society that is not. God's passage for is taken from the sixth chapter. And now hear the word of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:10-11)

There are twenty seven specific commands in this letter. Each command has been based upon the lesson of holiness from the first two chapters. The letter begins with a reminder that God has selected us before hand so that we would be holy and blameless by living within the magnificent grace of God.

Everyone who has accepted Jesus as their savior is dwelling in grace and has received complete forgiveness for every sin - and you have been redeemed. This means that holiness has been given to you in Christ.

Since God has given you the holiness of Christ, what kind of people should you be? If God has made you holy than you also must become holy in your daily life. Throughout the Ephesian letter lesson after lesson is given to instruct us in holiness. One of the final commands given to us that we might act out the holiness that God has given us is the command to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

There are struggles and trials on every side. Some are inside of us and others are outside. From struggling against sin to striving to obey God. Each of us have been and will continue to be tested and tried.

If everyone will be tested and tried – where will you get the strength to endure them? But where will this strength come from? How do we “get” strong in the Lord in order to BE strong in the LORD?

Most of the time we try to be strong in our own flesh. Since most of you have endured many obstacles in life you might be tempted to be strong in your own strength. It goes by many names; everything from self-sufficiency to stubbornness to arrogant pride. But it's really the same thing: Being strong in your own strength.

But our own strength fails us. We are inadequate for the task of holiness. Every one of us can testify to failing in our prayer life even though we tried. We can all sympathize with the Alcoholic who really tries to stop drinking but his insatiable thirst drives them back for just one small drink (which cascades into another death spiral.) Every one of us has had the experience of “trying to be good” but failing miserably. We need the strength of God.

So how do we get strong in God's power?

These are my students (and myself on the far right) which I taught in 2005