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What is Christian Resistance?
Consider a dam that holds back a body of water. While the water may appear to be calm, it is exerting a massive amount of pressure. The dam is resisting that pressure and holding the water back. While the dam and the water are in contact, the dam does not lose its shape. It creates a clear boundary so that one can tell where the dam ends and the water begins.
Christian resistance is analogous to a dam holding back water in so much as we resist the pressures of the world around us and retain our shape despite forces that seek to reshape us. Our capacity to maintain our shape (which it to be conformed to the image of Christ) is the essence of Christian resistance. We refuse to allow anyone or anything to define who we are and how we act except God (Matt 4:1-11). Instead, we seek to imitate Christ by observing all Christ commanded through the power of the Holy Spirit and the wisdom in God’s word.