Persecuted Church

By removing eternal risk, Christ calls his people to continual temporal risk. For the followers of Jesus the final risk is gone.

It’s the beginning that sets the tone. It needs to touch the heart. It can’t be just another introduction to another class book that students are required to read for a grade.

On Sunday, March 17. 2002, Christians were gathered for worship at the non-denominational Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan.

When the night ended, they had enough money in hand to provide over 4,100 Bibles to the people of China.

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) representative in China, Sven Burmester, recently told British reporters that, “For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible. The country has solved its population problem.”

China is a paradox in that some churches are able to worship freely while other church leaders are being arrested, persecuted and jailed.

Randy Alcorn compares Christianity in America with Christianity in China and inspires readers to see heaven, not earth, as their home.

In 1900, during the Boxer Uprising, over 230 western missionaries and 32,000 Chinese Christians were killed.

Will you show God great in the way you die? Will you say, “To live is Christ and to die is gain”?

Christians murdered, enslaved, families wiped out (Spring 1998)