The Battle For Your Soul, Part 2
One of the most famous Christian books ever written is The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, published in 1678. Using a series of brilliant analagies, Bunyan presented the Christian ecperience as a journey through this world toward the Celestial City. He portrayed our Christian experience as a pilgrimage. Four years later Bunyan published another book titled The Holy War. Like Pilgrim's Progress. it was an allegory. But instead of depicting the Christian life as a journey, Bunyan now visualized the human soul as a city under siege. Bunyan realized that following Christ is more than a walk; it is a warfare. Many of the books I've written in recent years have reflected the kind of themes we might find in The Pilgrim's Progress. I've talked about the excitement of Christian living, of making progress toward the coming Golden Age and the promise of heaven, the Clestial City. But, like Bunyan, I now feel compelled to devote my attention to the warfare before u...