Several mistakes are easy to make- ignoring the spiritual, unseen world is a critical one. --In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas, still hot into their first missionary journey, enter a new city, thrown out of the last one because they were too successful. --Nobody cares if you lose when you play the game. They might mock you, but they don't kill you. Winners are hated. God is a winner, and Paul and Barnabas are clearly on the winning team.--This should encourage us mightily. They win, yet are thrown out of the stadium time and time again. --They win because God gives their words power- because God outmaneuvers Satan every time- and because God turns persecution into Church growth. --God wins. Satan is a loser. Have hope, and fight-