Listen up, men – you have heard this said before.  So, why are there not more of us combat vets in church?  Just our opinion, but we think it is in large part because “they” don’t want us there… not really.  They want us in church only after we have been tamed… not just made civil, but declawed and tenderized.

Particularly, we are speaking about men – that is, deployed male veterans.   We acknowledge that any number of us ignore church worship, despite the fact that each of us may consider ourselves a “good Christian.”

As a group, combat veterans can be hard, course dangerous, and direct… and many of us little identify with a modern church that has become too feminine.  “As a result, men are going passive, or going away”  (see Forward to: The Map, the way of all great men by David Murrow).

Well, this is what the Fellow Soldier is all about… finding and revealing scriptural justification for a man being a soldier as well as being a Christian.

To that end, we are taking a fresh look at Scripture – in a new (and not so “tender”) light.  Based on our combined personal experience as combat veterans, we are analyzing Scripture from a perspective of soldiers and of soldiering!

Our goal is to recognize soldierly acts and the application of military tactics and strategy in the plain words of Scripture – not just the Old Testament (which is full of warfare), but in the gospels and the epistles as well.  Soldierly acts and applications of military principles that were practiced in scripture, including by Christ and by the apostles.  Thus recognizing and justifying a soldierly calling, a calling which should not be suppressed and treated with disdain, but both encouraged and celebrated in those Christian men who are called into it today.

If you are a Christian man and a combat veteran, and want to know what Scripture has to say about the place of soldiers and of soldiering in the Body of Christ of the early church; and our place in the chruch of today…

We invite you to explore our site – it is intended for men like us.