I was and once again a big fan of a Christian radio station at Toccoa Falls College which is north of my town/city of Athens. In the last few weeks I have returned to the station to listen some evenings and also when I am dressing for work. What the station presents is a more intelligent and global way of telling about the Gospel instead of the usual American way of mixing politics with Christianity, or presenting God like a genie in the sky who will grant us all our worldly wishes for money and material things. What is occurring in the church widewide is often discussed. Last week a pastor from church in Bulgaria was interviewed. The week before I heard a news report about a street preacher in Pakistan.
The report said that there are few majority Christian neighborhoods in Pakistan. But in this case, where this Pakistani Christian was preaching on the street was one of only a few Christian communities in the country. While was he proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, two Muslim men came up to him and demanded that he stop preaching. He ignored them and continued doing what he was doing. The two men left, but showed up again and brutally attacked him. He was sent to the hospital, where he recovered. Once he was discharged, he went back to preaching in that neighborhood. At the time of the report it was said that the police had not yet located the preacher's attackers. In Pakistan it is said that when Christians are attacked or killed, the police tend to drag their feet in investigating such crimes.
Our Christian brothers and sisters in Islamic and non-Islamic nations like China and North Korea who live daily under the gun deserve so much praise and admiration for being determined to not back down when faced by so much hate, deception, and evil. They truly have the spirit of the early church, the spirit that God intended the church to have.
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