"There’s no fight like a church fight," someone once told me. Unhappily, that’s proven true time and again. Of all communities, you would think (or hope, at least) that congregations organized around the cross of Christ would be exemplars to the world. We have the promises, the hope, and the forgiveness God gives to his own select community. For heaven’s sake, it ought to make a difference in the way we live, at least within our own redeemed community.

But someone else once pointed out to me that Satan isn’t all that anxious to go after unchurched folk. They’re halfway in his pen already. Satan wants a trophy worth displaying. If he can get someone in the church to play the role of double agent, then he’s got a fox inside the henhouse. If he can bring chaos to an entire believing congrega…