Grace Covenant Church

Grace Covenant Church
2101 East 50th Street, Texarkana, AR

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Sunday, November 13: Pray for the Persecuted Church


Some instructions for tomorrow:

1.  Make sure you are not being followed.

2. Conceal your Bible carefully, perhaps by having itsewn inside your coat.

3.  Enter the undisclosed place we are gathering at *&^%,  one or two people at a time, so as to not arouse suspicion.

4.  Be careful about any strangers who show up. They may be agents.

5.  Children whose parents have disowned them will be allowed to stay in homes of church members.

6.  If captured and threatened, remember the crown of glory that awaits you.

7.  Any who are able to make contact with members in prison, please do so, and be extra careful.

8.  Know that Brothers and Sisters in Christ in free lands are praying earnestly for all of us.

No, I have not lost my mind, nor am I more paranoid about our government than I should be.  I am simply trying to describe what many of our brothers and sisters in Christ face every day.  Sunday school tomorrow will consist of prayer time being devoted to the persecuted church.  We have a short video about a conversion experience in Iran.  We also have some materials from Voice of the Martyrs.

VOM, http://www.persecution.com/, has long been a witness to the free world about the trials and tribulations of believers in Communist, Muslim, and other pagan lands where freedom of worship is not allowed.

Let us all join together in the morning to pray and celebrate Christ's coming victory over all His and our enemies.  If you cannot make it to Sunday school, pray at home and on your way to worship.  Pick up one of the prayer lists to pray  for these Christians.  Give thanks for our freedom and their faithfulness.  Repent of our indifference and unthankfulness. 

Also, note that the Voice of the Martyrs' website offers free copies of Richard Wurmbrand's book Tortured for Christ.  That book was greatly used by God to change my life.  I just need to be reminded of it more often.  Pastor Wurmbrand was a great saint of the last century and his works live on after him.

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