John's Vision of a More Powful Army

iam in the middle of confirmation season, and i'm dealing with all these teen aged kids. They take names for confirmation every year. The most popular name for the young men is sebastian or seBastian. Sebastian a member of the praetorian guard who found christ and then renounced the army to live a life of non violence. You might think of felicity and perpetua. Some centuries later, two women from north africa, thrown to the wild animals because they wouldn't renounce their faith. We might think of another englishman. It's this army of those who are an for the sake of the lamb that constitute real power.