medical societies, libraries, judicial court systems, and political parties. The gates of hades are regretfully found even amid many modern churches. Satan’s power has not increased; Christ’s church has simply failed in large numbers to take her role seriously. Believers have left the field of battle in droves. Our view of ourselves as soldiers has become passé or ignored. I wouldn’t say the precautionary, hesitant church is losing; I would say this kind of church isn’t even seriously trying! In