The Weapons for Rebuilding Christendom (#1: An Open Bible)
This article is part of the series Weapons for Building Christendom, where we are exploring the God-given armaments that Christians must wield if we are to see households strengthened, churches fortified, and nations brought under the dominion of Jesus Christ.
OUR FIRST AND GREATEST WEAPON
Every empire has its armaments. Rome marched with her ironclad legions and brandished the short but deadly gladius. The British ruled the seas with the Union Jack lofted high above her timbered warships and thunderous cannonades. And today, modern governments crouch behind their snipers, stockpiles of nuclear warheads, and well-programmed killer drones that swarm like mechanical locusts. But the Christian, if he would dare to raise the scaffolding of a brand new Christendom, does not engage in that kind of warfare. He possesses, however, a weapon that eclipses all the bombers and intercontinental missiles. And that weapon is the Word of the Living God. It is a blade that never dulls like steel, never rusts like iron, never misfires like powder, and never veers off course like a lead-spiraling rifle round. Instead, it cuts straighter than the archer’s arrow, pierces deeper than the soldier’s spear, and grows sharper with every clash of resistance. And in this way, the Word of God is the paradox of all paradoxes—because it is the only weapon available to man that is strengthened by being struck, and the only sword that pierces its enemies without ever losing its edge.
Perhaps this is why the apostle Paul names it the “sword of the Spirit” (Ephesians 6:17). And also why the author of Hebrews dares to call it living—alive!—and keener than any double-edged saber, able to split the soul from spirit, and joint from marrow (Hebrews 4:12). Unlike the munitions and rounds of the sons of men, this weapon is not a lifeless instrument of death that was sharpened on a whetstone or forged of the perfect alloys. It is a living, breathing, blazing sword that has the ability to cut through the divide between heaven and earth, severing not only the flesh and bone but also the very thoughts and intentions of men.
And yet, seeing the uniqueness and power of this weapon, how many Christians still march dumbly into every corner of their lives with nothing but an empty scabbard rattling at their side? They work, they tweet, they drink, they eat—but when the smoke of life clears, the blade of Scripture has never once been drawn. Some go further still, leaving the Word of God locked away at home, stepping into battle with nothing, swinging at shadows, whiffing at the air, armed only with phantom blows and hollow Christianese and pseudo-religious opinions.
Instead of opening the Bible for themselves, or with their children, they sit aimlessly in front of a device, tossing their children the nanny named “iPad” and vegging out to whatever “quiet time” means to them. Instead of bringing God’s Word to bear in every facet of their lives, even in the politics, many parrot whatever cable news host or YouTube influencer shouts the loudest. Instead of correcting sin in themselves and in their homes, and in their world, they shrug and hope it goes away automatically. Instead of anchoring their relationships and marriages in the promises of Christ, they coast along until bitterness sets in and starts to have a foul stink. This is like a knight jousting with an imaginary sword. And we do the same thing when we try to engage the world on any level without the Word of God. We swing whatever vacant and vacuous opinions we have borrowed from a godless world, sprinkle a little Jesus on top, and strike nothing of substance in the process. Isn’t it time we pick up the Sword of the Spirit again? The Word of the Living God?
Here are a couple of examples.
A WEAPON FOR OUR HOMES
God charged fathers to teach His Word diligently to their children (Deuteronomy 6:6–7). This is not a suggestion; it is a command. And the reason it is commanded is that God’s truth, which is good for us, might run like molten iron through the veins of the next generation so that the flame of faith would not flicker out among our people in our future. In this way, the Christian home is not meant to be merely decorated with the Word, like a Christian Book Store—lined with trinkets, knickknacks, or Hobby Lobby Jesus Jukes. There is nothing wrong with a well-designed verse slapped in an artful frame, but that cannot be the load-bearing beam of your household. While decorations may please the eye and contribute to a certain kind of feng shui, it is concrete promises of God and His Word that will anchor your soul for the days and generations ahead. And it is these promises, hammered into the heart of your offspring, day after day, that make children immovable, steady, and battle-hardened to follow the commands of our great General, the Lion of Judah.
Thus, a household ruled by the Word becomes a mighty fortress with walls that cannot be scaled, with battlements that cannot be breached. And yet by contrast, a household without the Word is like a nation without borders—its gates are left unguarded, its defenses are dismantled, and the people can already hear the footsteps of the invaders plodding.
What does this mean? Fathers, you cannot leave your Bible closed Monday through Saturday and expect your sons to become chiefs and captains in the next Christendom. It means you cannot give your daughters over to TikTok and then wonder why they do not treasure Christ. It means you cannot content yourself with Sunday-only sermons while neglecting the battlefield of the dinner table, the breakfast table, the bedside prayers, and the weekly drives to soccer practice. Every one of those is a moment for you to conquest, every one a chance to fortify their souls with the Word of God. And you must wrestle with the question: “Have I been faithful with the time and the Word that God has given me?”
For this reason, fathers, you must not treat the Scriptures like shelf décor that sits collecting dust on the mantle. Instead, you have to begin seeing it as your very own reforged Narsil that you will wield in the service of God and man to defeat the fiends of hell. You must begin seeing your Bible, not as a fifteen-minute religious ritual, but a sharpened scythe you plan to send the armies of hell to flight with. And the opposite is also true, if you shrink back from this most holy duty—if you grow slothful in wielding the Book within your walls, and submitting under its teaching for the development of wisdom, then do not imagine that the enemy will wait politely outside your gates for you to wake up and get yourself prepared. He will infiltrate in your slumber with cunning, he will smuggle in a myriad of perversions while you neglect your duty on the wall, until at last he has rent your household into a thousand pieces from within.
Stand on the Word of God, brothers. It is the means God has given you to build Christendom first in you, and then your wife, and then your children, and eventually to the nations.
OUR WEAPON TO WIN THE WORLD
The home is not the terminus of this battle; it is the training ground. The prayers you lead at the table, the verses you read at bedtime, the disciplines you exercise in love—these are not small or private matters that will remain locked inside your doors. You do them so that they will bubble out and begin spilling out into the world at large. These private palpitations of holiness in your home are the forge where future wars are won, soldiers are tempered, and maidens crafted into the seven pillars of this royal Kingdom. And here is the blunt, but obvious truth: a man who will not fight with Scripture in his household will never stand, nor lead anyone else to stand, with Scripture in the city gates. But a man who has been hammered and beaten by the Word, so that its fire has gotten into his bones, and the bones of his family, will stride into the public square joyfully armed, battle-tested, and ready to see the world made Christian.
And it is in that public square where the battle rages openly that we must now enter. After decades of avoiding culture and pulling out of it, it has grown darkened and decayed on our watch. Which means it must be reclaimed under our watch as well if we will make any progress in the Christianization of the world.
Because it is “out there,” beyond our homes and churches, that policies are being written under our noses, curriculums are shaped behind our backs, courts are swayed in private rooms, and laws are laid like rails that will carry generations either toward Christ or toward chaos. And so, when we march into the public square, we do not swagger in with the recklessly wielded cleavers of human opinion. We do not don the “spiritual gift” of anonymous keyboard warrior to win a debate on X. We actually leave our homes and go into all the world as heralds of a Sovereign King. We leave our houses with the mandate to disciple the nations and make sure they know how to obey Christ in every facet of their lives, obeying every single command Jesus gave. And since Jesus says that the entire Bible is all about Him (Luke 24), it would stand to reason that we must not only know our Bibles and lead our families, but we have to begin reckoning with our mandate to make the nations biblically literate and Christian again. This is why Peter says about our speech: “If anyone speaks, let him speak as it were the utterances of God” (1 Peter 4:11). The world hawks its lies and peddles perverted truths like a crack dealer in Compton. And to combat the proliferation of their message, we cannot be silent! We must speak! We must fill the air with the truth so that it chokes out every lie! The world fights with disposable weapons—ideologies with expiration dates stamped on their hilt—but we brandish the one Word that “endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25), a sword forged in eternity and untouched by rust or rot. This is why Isaiah says: “The grass withers, and the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
That means you must build your life on that. You must build your family on that. And you must begin strategizing on how to demolish the demonic strongholds we are seeing in our society and bring them back under the banner of truth before we completely lose the West!
Now, let me make this practical for a moment. If you still have your children in the godless government schools, have the courage to retire your wife, so you can bring your most precious children home and disciple them with the Word of God, not the decrees of Caesar. There is nothing admirable or excusable about offering your children to Molech and then wondering why, in the future, they dance with demons. Work harder. Work longer. Make more money. Free your wife to do the most important work on earth, which is not making a paycheck from another man, but raising your future men and women.
It also means when your employer demands that you lie about a man pretending to be a woman, you refuse—not with any malice or malevolence, but by wielding the Word that says, “Male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27) and I will not live by lies. It means when your city council spends your tax dollars funding abortion clinics and drag-queen parades, you don’t shrug in resignation—you stand and confront them with the Word of the living God, declaring, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13), and warning them that they answer to a higher throne. It may mean praying imprecatory psalms that God would dash His enemies to pieces. It may mean running for office and ending the tyranny of evil in your town, state, or nation. Whatever it is, you have a Book in your hand written by the Creator of the universe and infused with His power. Stop treating it as a trifle ornament on a shelf and as a weapon God expects you to wield for His glory and for the life of the world.
CONCLUSION
Do not be content with useless rhetoric; wield the Bible as the weapon it was designed to be. Preach it from pulpits, pastor! Quote it in classrooms, teacher! And bring it to bear in every corner of your world, dear Christian! Read it at your tables until its words leap into your children’s hearts and rebound out of their mouths. Answer the slogans of your age with chapter and verse. Speak Genesis when manhood and womanhood are defiled. Proclaim Exodus when the unborn are threatened. Declare the Gospels when love is perverted. Sit on school boards or raise men who will. Remove your children from the state’s indoctrination camps and train them in the Word at home (Deuteronomy 6). Carry your Bible into the break room, onto the shop floor, into council chambers, and into the ears of the magistrates. Organize schools, businesses, and guilds on its foundations. And above all, wield it without apology until every idol is toppled and Christendom rises once again out of its former ruins.
For as the Scripture promises, the kingdoms of this world will be set to flight, and they will utterly tremble, not at our opinions, but at His Word. And the day is coming—yes, it is coming—when the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14). The stone cut without hands has already struck the foot of the statues of human empires and it is growing until it fills the entire world (Daniel 2:35). The nations are streaming and will fully stream into Zion, and the earth itself will be filled with the glory of Christ. And when Christendom is fully established, it will not be maintained by drones or bullets or ballot boxes—but by the unsheathed, unrelenting, unvarnished, and true Living Word who will return again in human flesh.
