Did you miss this last weekend? Watch out particulatly for the section on the Church in China, in which we are told that the levels of persecution are worse than at any time since the Cultural Revolution. How is the Church responding to the worsening situation? There is also a particular focus on the Church in Syria, and the chance to find out a bit about what’s going on in the Church in Nigeria and how they are responding in the midst of persecution, poverty and a pandemic… as well as the politicisation of Food Aid. What can we learn from our brothers and sisters from around the world, especially in a context of Lockdown. Along with ideas for prayer and fundraising, this is well worth a watch!
Quote of the evening: ‘Wong Ming Dao, when he went into jail at aged 60 found that all the great things he had lived for as a Christian leader were taken away from him, and all he to do was get to know Christ in this jail cell. That’s what persecution does, it strips everything away until its just you and Christ and the focus is on the knowing and the receiving of the love of Christ … that’s the benefit of persecution, because it brings you closer to the pereson of Christ and it puts the focus not on serving Christ, though that’s important, but on knowing Him’.
OK - one more then: ‘Chinese Christians really say you’ve got to get together physically because something happens in a group with Christ that cannot happen any other way … if your Zoom service is the same as your service in the Church, don’t go back tot hat Church, because something ought to happen in a Church when you gather round and meet Christ that cannot happen in any other context or in any other way. They are back at Church, and they are astonished that in Britain many Churches still haven’t opened their doors yet’.