Thursday, August 22, 2013


How strong is your faith?

I was spending time thinking and praying for the people who are being persecuted for their faith is Egypt. Currently, 60-80 churches and Christian organizations have been burned to the ground in Egypt. I heard a story about a 10 year old girl who was walking home from Bible study with her Christian teacher. In the middle of the street, someone walked up to her and shot her in the chest because she had a Bible. She was rushed to the hospital by her teacher and was pronounced DEAD at the hospital. Father asked me the question above and sadly, my answer was: Not as strong as the 10 year old girl walking down the street of Cairo with a Bible. As I looked back at persecutions from the past, Nazi Germany comes to mind here. In order for Hitler to kill 11 million people, he had to make others afraid to say anything. He did this through Brute shows of force that made people scared to stand up. Right now, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is doing the exact same thing by showing force and trying to intimidate Christians into living under Sharia Law. If your church was burned to the ground and you witnessed a 10 year old girl being shot for her faith, what would you do about it? Are you willing to stand up for your faith or is faith something that you practice in order to check some box on a form? I am asking myself these questions along with others so that we can decide what we believe in and can have the courage to stand in the face of darkness if that day were to come.

So, how strong is your faith?

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