Called to Stand

In every generation, the church faces moments when silence becomes surrender. Called to Stand addresses one such moment-not with panic or politics, but with spiritual clarity and moral resolve.

This book is not about seizing power or fighting cultural battles with fleshly weapons. It is about equipping Christian warriors for spiritual battle. About learning how to remain faithful, courageous, and obedient when pressure mounts and compromise feels easier than conviction. Drawing deeply from Scripture-especially the imagery of spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6-Charles Garner calls believers back to the disciplines that have always sustained the church in hostile ages: truth, prayer, holiness, discernment, courage, mercy, patience, and endurance.

Where The Battle for the Republic diagnoses the cultural and civic crisis confronting the nation, Called to Stand equips the people of God to respond rightly. It reframes spiritual warfare as a battle of allegiance rather than aggression, of formation rather than outrage. The church is not summoned to rage, retreat, or withdraw into abstraction-but to stand, fully armored, in the places God has assigned.

Written for pastors, church leaders, and serious believers, this volume speaks to pulpits, congregations, households, and individual hearts. It challenges leaders to recover their calling, congregations to rediscover their mission, and believers to embrace their identity as saints under orders.

This is a call to wakefulness in a drowsy age.

A summons to obedience when fear tempts retreat.

A reminder that the armor of God is not ceremonial-it is issued for real conflict.

Called to Stand is for those who believe the church was not meant to survive the age quietly, but to remain faithful until the trumpet sounds.