Persecuted Church

With all of the bad news we hear out of the Middle East, it’s easy to overlook how God is at work in this region in incredible ways, drawing people to Himself and growing His church. I think you’ll be encouraged by what David has to share. 

God will use persecution, as He always has, to thereby strengthen His church and extend the Gospel message, not destroy it. Persecution in America will probably never be as extreme as it has been in countless places throughout church history and as it is around the world today.

Iran has the fastest growing church in the world. However, the moment an Iranian says “yes” to Jesus, persecution begins.

As Americans we’ve been slow to accept the extent to which Bible-believing Christ-followers have become socially unacceptable.

Each day, men, women, and children are killed for following Christ. Most often they’re largely ignored by the world but watched by the eyes of Heaven— “the world is not worthy of them” (Hebrews 11:38).

Today my heart is heavy after being assaulted by the evil depicted across the internet of the American journalist being beheaded.

Displayed on the Martyrs Monument (at The Voice of The Martyrs USA ministry office in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) are the names of many martyrs—each one representing a real person with a real story. 

"We Western Christians are tempted or deceived into confusing God with Mammon, and freedom of religion with freedom in Christ." —Eric Foley, Voice of the Martyrs Korea