DYK: Jesus Never Called for an Army?
His core command was to make disciples (learners and apprentices), not soldiers (fighters)
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS & DECOLONIAL INQUIRYDECOLONIZING MISSIONS
Joe Quarcoo
5/22/20261 min read
Despite the common evangelical language of the "Church Militant," the only time Jesus used the word for 'army' (Greek: stratos) was in the context of judgment or in parables about worldly power.
His core command was to make disciples (learners and apprentices), not soldiers (fighters).
The greatest act in Christ's mission was not a victory on a physical battlefield, but an act of self-sacrifice on the Cross—a deliberate choice to absorb violence rather than inflict it.
This fundamental distinction—discipleship over domination—is why mission language must shed its military inheritance.
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