I have not read every single post,but I have already told jason there is a difference between a single man alone,and a man protecting wife/mother /family etc.
Even in gov. there is a different office/anointing than a personal walk. police,army ,must carry weapons.
What I have not heard ANYONE address is the "crucified life".We are dead already,and this life has lost most of it's "preciousness" that we once clung to.(supposedly)
IOW,if you really,really get down to the core,why would you not want to die and go home?????
To a sold out saint,to die or suffer wounds is an honor,but it was God that put the Mother Bear ingredient in a family man,or woman.
And btw,once you have had the privilege of raising a drug crazed demon infested son,and gone into gangland and rescued him from tattooed thugs,you can not possibly know the feeling one gets from an ambulance passing by,or the wonderful humbling experience of cops swarming your house about 8 times,and forever destroyed reputation in the neighborhood,and the crescendo climax of two broken fingers after ,one day,I said "I have had about enough of this" and shut him down but for good.....with a broken hand that serves as a reminder for the rest of my life.when they are on drugs,they keep coming at you,and coming at you,and coming at you. I learned my lesson on that kid.Save your hands,use a choke hold.
You can not possibly make this one dimensional in the real world.(family,police,army,schools,etc)