I forget what the “that” was in this comment I recently saw on social media, but the “burned on sticks” part stuck in my memory. Let’s examine four popular misunderstandings about persecution, and what the Bible has to say about it. And it will increasingly continue to happen here.Īnd so, it’s a good thing that the issue has come to the forefront now, while we still have time to develop a biblical theology of persecution and prepare to act on it. “That could never happen here,” we mused thankfully, and promptly pushed the matter out of our thoughts.īut it can happen here. To us, the persecution of Christians has always been something that happened thousands of miles away in far off, uncivilized, unsophisticated lands. Until the last ten years or so, finding the proverbial needle in the haystack would have been much easier than finding an American who had experienced actual Christian persecution at the hands of her government. American citizens (and many citizens of other Westernized countries as well) alive today have grown up with the guarantee of freedom of religion, codified in our Constitution. Though Pastor Coates’ arrest was heartbreaking, one good thing that has come out of it is that the online discussion about it has pulled back the curtain on just how much biblical ignorance is running rampant out there among professing Christians on the issue of persecution. It’s a hot topic in pop-evangelicalism these days in the wake of Pastor James Coates’ arrest in Canada (please don’t forget to pray for him, his family, and his church).
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