Maybe you have seen that I have a new team, and our team name is “Hell, NO!”. Or maybe this is the first you’re hearing about it. Either way, I want to explain the story behind the name, because I’m sure it’s provoking questions and confusion and maybe even a little judgment.
When discussing what we wanted our team name to be, the question was brought up about what attributes we, as a team, have. One word that was mentioned was authority, as in authority through the Holy Spirit who lives within us. Somehow this led to another person mentioning a message we had just heard at the Awakening by Andrew Shearman, where he exclaimed “Hell, no!”. Not in the normal sense of the phrase, but in the literal sense. As in telling hell NO! Because we as Christians need to tell hell no.
Jesus took on the sins of the world and was killed, but He overcame death. “…I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hell.” (Revelation 1:18) War is waging here on earth, but if you read Revelation, you already know the outcome. (Spoiler alert: the enemy doesn’t win!) Jesus tells Peter in the book of Matthew that the forces of Hell will not overpower the church He is building. “…on this rock I will build my church, and the forces of Hell will not overpower it.” (Matthew 16:18)
We, as a team, wanted to make a statement these last two months of the Race. We wanted to declare that hell has no power in Malaysia or Indonesia. No power in us physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. No power in our place of ministry or place of rest or place of adventure. We wanted to boldly, and with the authority and power we have been given through Christ, tell hell, NO! Not now, not later, not ever!
