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Monday, August 02, 2004 Extremists targeting Christians in IraqThere is an article out on Washtimes.com detailing the events surrounding the car bombings and attacks of five churches in Baghdad and Mosul. It appears these bombs were all set to go off at the same time, a time which coincided with the church services of each of these churches. As worshippers left a church in Mosul they were attacked with a bomb and rocket-propelled grenades. Persecution exists in the world. We are not unaware of this, yet I wonder aloud at how many western Christians simply don't care about this. How many occupying the pews on Sunday would stand with us if a united front of anti-Christian violence came raging against the church. I remember one of the most profound class times I had at my undergraduate alma mater Liberty University. A pastor from India came and spoke to our missions class and told us about the persecuting he and other Christians were suffering throughout the world. His most remarkable statement was that it was a privilege to suffer for the cause of Christ. That he  took great honor in being beaten, bruised, and bloodied for the Gospel was an amazing thing to grasp. How liberating it is to be so given to Christ that we endure the slings and arrows of those opposed to Him. That is true Christianity.
I pray for our brothers and sisters in Iraq and throughout the world who are enduring persecution and chains this day. As Philip Jenkins reminds us in The Next Christendom the average Christian is not a white, middle class American suburbanite. Rather a third world, almost illiterate, persecuted villager. A great burden rests on my soul today. posted by Preachin Jesus | 1:39 PM | |
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