Make War!

"Over the years, it has become plain to me that not everyone likes the idea that life is war. I remember a colleague almost forty years ago complaining that the warfare image of the Christian life was not helpful, and that what was needed was the family image. God is our Father, we are his children, Christians are brothers and sisters, and life is fellowship. And I recall about twenty years ago, during a crisis in our church, a whole group of my friends in the church criticizing me for putting too much emphasis on the Christian life as a fight — a fight of faith..." ~ John Piper, Desiring God