If some cynical joker, disgusted at our parochial squabbling, were to write over the church door, "Fighting Room Only," he would be telling the sober truth, albeit unconsciously. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ does not mean only that we have become acquainted with a "catechismful" of facts about Him; it means that we have been drawn into the live momentum of a life that was lived to destroy the works of the devil. And there is fighting room only. "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life" is not just something that lends solemn pathos to the confirmaton service; it is written over our whole life. Every minute brings a decision for or against Christ, and the decision involves a struggle and a fight.
Dr. Martin Franzmann, "The Young Man Who Fled"
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