Have you ever considered what it must be like to be a surgeon? I'm
asking because the overwhelming majority of people in life, are not
surgeons. Most of us will never go to medical school and most of us
will never learn to cut into a dead corpse and take out a heart in order
to do a heart transplant on someone. Truth be told, you would not
catch me near a corpse or blood or anything remotely that gory! I don't
have the stomach to even look at medical shows on television where they
do these types of things.
I bring this up because every day I read through a number of news
articles about Christians being persecuted all over the world. Some
days, to be honest, it's pretty depressing. I get to read about how
Muslims are chopping off the heads of other Christians, or how Boko
Haram has decided to murder more of my brothers and sisters in Christ.
When I'm not reading about that, I'm reading about how Christians in
China, Indonesia, North Korea and other countries are being tortured and
imprisoned for their faith in Christ. It can get a person down,
especially when you consider that despite your efforts to inform other
Christians about it, so many of those Christians you're trying to inform
just hit the snooze button, yawn and then go back to sleep. It gets
very old.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not into depressing people. I certainly
don't want to complain that the overwhelming majority of the Christians I
know are clueless about the plight of the persecuted church, but I have
to admit that there are some days when I really would like to give a
loud speech and tell people, "Look, your Christianity is not what
Christians all over the world are living out as Christians."
I mean, seriously, how hard is it to write a letter to a persecuted Christian? How hard is it to give a few dollars a month to get bibles into a restricted nation? How hard is it to pray every day for the persecuted church?
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