Below is an excerpt from the February 2026 World Challenge newsletter
Becoming Radically Uncompromised
” How do we live out God’s highest calling? First, we must regain sensitivity. We must fight against a seared conscience. Scripture speaks about losing sensitivity to the Spirit: “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed” (Ephesians 4:19, NIV). There’s a choice between being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and to the sensuality of doing what we want with our lives. Sensuality is not just about sexual lust; it’s about our own desires and pleasures. In doing this, we lose our sensitivity to the things of the Holy Spirit.”
“Years ago, before my father died, he took my family to a PG-rated movie. About halfway through, my dad got up and walked out. I thought he might have gone to get popcorn, but he never returned. When the film ended, I asked him, ‘Dad, why did you leave? We were laughing and having fun.’ He said, ‘Because that one actor took the Lord’s name in vain. I am not going to sit there and have my Savior abused like that.’ I suddenly realized I didn’t hear those words because I had become so desensitized.”
“We are constantly bombarded by words through music, computers, and television so that we lose sensitivity to the Spirit and indulge in the world’s sensuality. Without realizing it, we can lose sensitivity to subtle compromises. I am grateful for my father’s living testimony in maintaining sensitivity to the Spirit.”
“All of us can think of something that is subtly causing us to compromise. God is speaking to us, saying, ‘My children, I love you, and I want the best for yo. This concession is robbing you of the best marriage, the best parenting, a good job, or more financial resources. Maybe it’s robbing you of a fruitful prayer life, a fuller study of Scripture, or a hunger for more of Jesus.”
In the initial Bible Study we discuss the paramount importance of communion with God. Abiding in Jesus (John 15:5) is literally our only hope of being able to see the Lord rightly, ourselves rightly as well as, the others around us. The devil is still a liar and the Lord wants us to know that we will eat that fruit every time without the help of His Spirit. Let us all be humbled by our humanity. I know this branch is humbled on a daily basis and I am glad about it! We are so, so loved by God in His protecting us from harm’s way, amen?
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