Welcome to Polemos!

About Polemos

Polemos began in 2001 as a feeble attempt to create a possible means of communication with those to whom I had shared the gospel and had left with a tract.

In the years following my conversion I had literally given out hundreds of tracts and numerous cassette tapes to people I never saw again and I often wondered what had become of them.

In 2001 I scraped together a few tracts and created a single page website with little more than an email address on it in hopes that I could possibly have some further communication with these people.

As time went by it only seemed natural to add some links and other various resources in yet another feeble attempt to not only direct sinners to their Savior but also to promote some further thought about the things of God and especially the great biblical truths which are so often neglected in the average Church.

Since that time we have gone through many changes (good ones we hope) as the Lord has worked in my own life and in the life of my family. We have had thousands of visitors, sent hundreds of cassette tapes all over the planet, we have given out many tracts and hopefully provided some good spiritual food for some of our brethren.

It is our earnest prayer that in this new year and in the years to come that the Lord will continue to use this ministry more and more in the salvation of the wicked and the sanctification of his children. By the Lord's grace we hope to be yet another light shinning into the darkness.

In Tenebris Lux

Jonathan Bunnett
1/13/07

Pol'-e-what Ministries?

Polemos (pol'-em-os), from which we derive our English word polemics, is a transliteration of a Greek word which speaks of warfare, battles or armed conflicts. It speaks of a prolonged and violent struggle.

As a new Christian I occasionally heard that the Christian life was one of warfare, but nothing ever prepared me for what I have experienced. I can not think of any one word which better describes the Christian life.

I know that this might sound strange or unintelligible to some Christian ears and that to some professing “Christians” the very idea of equating Christianity with warfare is probably offensive. But never-the-less the Scriptures are full of references to this war; from the promise of hostility between the seed of the Woman and that of the Serpent in Genesis chapter three, to the promise to the over comer in the book of Revelation, this war is on every page of Scripture!

We are at war with a world system that constantly pressures us to conform to itself (Romans 12:2), we are at war with Satanic principalities that are at work in the children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2), but worst of all we are at war with an enemy in our own heart that wont quit (Romans 7:14-25). As James Ramsey so eloquently put it in his commentary on the letters to the churches in the book of Revelation:

"Each of these epistles concludes with a glowing pro­mise of the glories of the church, triumphant. These are all addressed, not to the churches as such, but "to him that overcometh,"—to the individual conqueror. The possession of these glories is suspended, therefore, upon an individual conflict. The suspension of every one of these promises upon this single condition, thus seven times repeated, shows that the very design of the visible church, is to call men to this spiritual conflict, and to sustain them in it, as the only means of attaining the glories of the everlasting kingdom.
It is this personal conflict, too, that gives shape and character to the great conflicts of the church, as portrayed in the symbolic revelations of this book, and as already in part recorded in the history of the church. It, therefore, brings the whole of these great and stirring scenes of seals and trumpets, and vials and beastly powers, as well as of the New Jerusalem, in its descending glories, into imme­diate and personal contact with the spiritual life of each soul. It is the exigencies of this spiritual and individual warfare that demand or give occasion to all the strange and vast movements of the mighty plan of God here on earth…."

And again speaking of this war within our own hearts he says:

"....It admits of no truce. In the sweet retirement of the family, and in the perplexing cares and irritations of business, in every field of intellectual effort, in every walk of cha­rity and work of usefulness, in the most sacred ordinances of the house of God, and in the solemn secrecy of the closet, the enemy is present, and the conflict pressing"