What’s the biggest problem or disappointment you are facing today? What are you most concerned about in your church or family? Need a little perspective? Well consider that Christians in places like Orissa, India aren’t waking up thinking about the economy, a recession. They aren’t debating and dividing over music styles, Bible translations, the timing of the rapture, or concerned about what they are going to buy for Christmas. No, as Timmy Brister points out, they wake up every morning wondering which believers were killed in the last 24-hours. They live in a place . . . .
“Where 300 villages have been pillaged and plundered, 70,000 Christians have been left homeless, many of them forced to live in the jungles.
4,000 homes have been destroyed.
3,000 people are missing and 77 people have been burned or hacked to death.
450 churches have been burned to the ground.
One Christian worker who was attacked by a mob while praying, said, “It’s like a never-ending nightmare . . . we’re living in constant fear of more attacks.”
The violence in Orissa, according to Voice of the Martyrs, is due to the increasing number of Indians converting to Christianity.
At a time when those of us who either write or read blogs, I felt that it is necessary to call us back to Christianity 1.0 where there’s a cross to carry and a price to pay far greater than anyting we have known in front of a computer screen. Let us pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters, and by their lives, determine to have a right perspective about the gospel, the church, and the kingdom of God where the weight of glory conforms our character and characterizes our conduct as we seek to follow Christ.”
