Playground or Battleground?

What's wrong with Americanized Christianity today?  The late A. W. Tozer nails it.

"In the early days, when Christianity exercised a dominant influence over American thinking, men conceived the world to be a battleground.  Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and they believed in God and righteousness and heaven as the other...Man...had to choose sides--he could not be neutral.  For him it must be life or death, heaven or hell, and if he chose to come out on God's side, he cold expect open war with God's enemies.  The fight would be real and deadly and would last as long as life continued here below...The Christian soldier...never forgot what kind of world he lived in --it was a battleground, and many were wounded and slain.
     How different today.  The fact remains the same, but the interpretation has changed completely.  Men think of the world not as a battleground, but as a playground."

Remember the hymn we used to sing, "Onward Christian soldiers...marching as to war."  What happened?  The answer is simple...our adversary has deceived us.

Will we wake up and remember the faith of our fathers?....or is it simply too late?