New Church Life May/June 2015 | Page 39

     Through external battles with injustice we fight internal battles. While you are fighting one battle against drugs on the street, the drug addict is fighting a battle against drug addiction. As you are fighting one battle against samesex-marriage, proponents of same-sex-marriage are fighting a battle against injustice, bigotry and hatred. We all fight a myriad of battles, sometimes apparently conflicting battles. And at one level we are all right and all wrong. “No one is good but One, that is, God.” (Mark 10:18) And why do these battles continually rage? They rage because through the conflict or observing the conflict we are able to find a cle