Christian Persecution

This post is important. I want to inform people namely, Christians, that what is stated below has been on my heart and I didn't know how I was going to do a post on it.  Low and behold, I found this on Faithwriters and it states what I firmly believe is true and soon it will be happening. We better wake up. Talk about in our churches and anywhere people will listen. We need to help Christians who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus. It is so important, because without Jesus we would probably surrender to persecution. NOW I KNOW WHY THE LORD WANTED ME TO START THIS BLOG.
Of course, we need to pray for the lost. The Lord weeps for the lost and wants us to be his voice and hands.

Dr. Carl Sterling Parnell, a Christian educator, author, and columnist, has completed his second book, which is in an Adobe pdf, eBook format. It is entitled A Brewing Pot of Christian Persecution: America’s Postmodern Anti-Christian Crusade. It was written to prove that Christian persecution does exist in America. It can be purchased for $5.00 from the FAITHWRITERS EBOOK STORE.  His articles may also be read on his FAITHWRITERS PROFILE.

 A brewing pot of Christian persecution: America’s Postmodern Anti-Christian crusade exposes the tactics that are being used even now to rid America of Christianity. The anti-Christian agenda in America can be seen in the public school systems, the court systems, and throughout many other public settings. Despite the assumption that America is a Christian nation, it is obvious that Christendom and Christians are on the verge of being persecuted. Read your newspapers. Watch television news broadcasts. Read Internet articles. Read books on the topic (According to Russ Wise in his article “Education and New Age Humanism,” Sheila Schwartz, a member of the American Humanist Association, stated “…but thank God the Crazies don’t do all that much reading. If they did, they’d find they have already been defeated.”). Then, it would be much easier to accept that a brewing pot of Christian persecution is about to boil over in the United States, unless Christians everywhere become aware of what is going on behind closed doors and get on their knees in concerted prayer again.

Many people do not believe that Christian persecution exists in America. In fact, some people even believe that up to 90 percent of Americans are Christian. However, that is a very high estimate. But, regardless of how many people profess to be Christians in America, a brewing pot of Christian persecution is about to boil over in the nation that prides itself on religious freedom. Christians in the United States need to set their eyes on what happens in the halls of Congress in the next few years. They should become aware of the anti-Christian groups that seek to gain leverage over America’s Christian community. They should become aware of the proposed bills in Congress that would prevent Christians from worshiping freely inside and outside the four walls of their churches. But, most importantly, they should become aware of the persecution that already exists in America in businesses, public schools, public universities, government agencies, and, of course, the media. Therefore, Christians in America would then be able to mount a unified front against those who would attempt to deny Christians their religious freedoms without fear of persecution

Life Line

Day after day, I walk around the neighborhood, travel on buses, Elevated and  Metra trains staring at people of all ages on their cell phones. I sometimes go ballistic when I hear them yelling on their phones in grocery stores because I hear people’s personal discussions and it is annoying to say the least. The cell phone is with people night and day, and I see them holding the phone in their hands like they expect a phone call momentarily. I read an article on the Internet where the writer states he thinks people use the phone in order to keep people at a distance. Have we become a generation of phone huggers rather than people huggers?  I will bet you that a lot of people have their cell phone on the pillow next to them so they can answer in the middle of the night. This wasn’t true before the cell phone and other technologies. I believe there are some people who could not live without their phone.

I call them “Techno Freaks,” not because they are bad or strange but because they are dangerous when technology takes over their lives. They are dangerous when driving, either talking or texting. They are dangerous while riding a bike or motorcycle. They are dangerous to all of us who want to stay alive.

But the greatest danger is technology becoming people’s God. It must be a life line for some people.

As a Christian, we should be concerned with contacting our life line, Jesus Christ. We should be contacting Him daily. Without Jesus and his precious Blood our life would be pretty dark. We need people concerned about the lost and shed darkness by attracting people to the light. We are the light of the world.         

Are you ready to suffer

The thought has been encircling my mind for the past year. Would I be ready to suffer and die for Jesus Christ if persecution came to the United States?  Many Christians in China, North Korea and now Africa are suffering and dying because they believe in Jesus Christ. What is more impressive is while they are being tortured they are singing the praises of the Lord. How magnificent is this. I have received this information from Voice of the Martyrs, an organization that sends Bibles, asks us to pray, and to send letters to those persecuted in different areas of the world encouraging them. It would be wonderful for them to know that we in the United States are praying for them. 

I’m not sure how I would react if some other power took over in the United States and demanded we deny Jesus or die. We, in this country, don’t know much persecution. I think we are a soft society that is slowly drifting away from Jesus.