Marching Orders: A Tactical Plan For Converting The World To Christ - Dan McGuire - Catholic Answers (Paperback)Your mission: Proclaim the Good NewsYour weapons: Faith and reasonand the power of the Holy SpiritYour opposition: The world, the flesh, and the devilWhen Dan McGuire was an officer in the Marines, he learned the operations orderthe standard five-part procedure that militaries use to conduct combat missions. Today hes a theologian and evangelist, and inMarching Ordershe adapts the operations order to the mission ofspiritualcombat: the battle to save souls.Each one of us has been charged by our commander-in-chief Jesus Christ with the solemn mission to preach the gospel to the whole world (Matt. 28:16-20). This is not an optional duty, meant only for the exceptionally smart, holy, or extrovertedits for all of us. Nor is it a job for the fainthearted. It takes virtues like courage and resolve, inner strength and daily acts of conversion. And it takes smart planning.InMarching Orders,Dr. McGuire gives you the virtue-building tools and resourcesyour weapons for the fightyou need to be a faithful disciple, and a battle-tested plan for turning your faith into evangelism. He shows you how to survey the field, how to assess your forces and the enemys, when to advance and when to retreat, how to overcome obstacles, ways to work with our field officers in the Church, and more.Your mission is to spread the Faith. Do you choose to accept?"A spiritual war with eternal consequences rages all around us and within us, and no one is exempt from the duty to fight.Marching Orders is a handbook for battle that will help you engage the Enemy of your soul with faith and fortitude." Paul Thigpen, Ph.D., author ofManual for Spiritual Warfare