Guerilla Warfare

When the British came over to fight the Revolutionary war, we were a young country with little munitions.  We were unskilled and we were outnumbered.  In Britain, they learned how to fight formally by lining up in  a line.  Someone said, “Fire” and they all fired their guns.  When they got up, the next group got on one knee until they fired their weapons.  As they fired, they advanced.  The colonist knew that they could not fight that kind of war, they weren’t trained for it.  They used a method of warfare made famous by the Native Americans already on the continent.  It is called Guerrilla warfare.  It is a type of guerilla warfare that involved shooting, running, hiding, and tricking.  It was winning by any means possible.  The Britain’s were no match for this type of warfare.  They were not used to having to find their target hiding in the swamps.  They also had bright red uniforms with a big white “X” telling us where to shoot.  It is no secret that we won.  I think that we try to formally fight the enemy.  We try to gain strength from just coming to church on Sunday and Wednesday.  We try to gain strength by just doing the conventional.  When the enemy is more powerful than you or simply just wiser, you have to get crazy.  You have to go and find a revival, call up a friend and have a shut in, pump Christian music in your home all day long.  You have to go to every service that your church offers and make a friend out of the strongest person you can.  This is not a cute fight.  It is a nonconventional battle.  This nonconventional battle requires nonconventional means.