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5 Lessons From Persecuted Christians In China
Believers in the People’s Republic of China have experienced much persecution. With the recent arrest in December of Wang Yi Pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu along with his wife, social media has helped bring more of an awareness of what they’ve experienced. There are several valuable lessons one can learn from the persecuted Christians in China.
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The suffering church in China is not alone; there are persecuted Christians all over the world from whom we should learn. Last summer I visited an immigrant Korean-language church in Houston and heard the prayers of a 90-year-old pastor. He prayed a prayer of thanksgiving in Korean for God’s faithfulness, beginning from the days of the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s and 1940s. He then thanked the Lord for opportunities to worship during the Korean civil war of the 1950s. He thanked God for his faithfulness in the midst of immigration stresses that come from not knowing the English language or American culture, yet still being able to worship the Lord freely. By the end of the prayer, I was bawling. I wondered if I even knew the same God as this brother. Such a heart of gratitude is something we can all learn and benefit from.
Source: 5 Lessons from Persecuted Christians in China | The Gospel Coalition