Freedom to Worship

Okay, I know it's been a long time since I was able to update this but I sent the kids back to school today and have a little extra free time to keep up with this, so I hope that you will begin to read, enjoy, and be challenged. I will start making videos again tomorrow but today you will actually have to read, I know this is disappointing but stick with me I will make it easier.

I have been reading a lot of stuff from "The Voice of the Martyrs" website and their magazine. I must say that it has had a tremendous impact on me to this point. This month they are featuring an article "CHINA: Can't Block the TRUTH" by Dr. Tom White. He goes through to explain how some of the Christians were meeting in homes and the Public Security Bureau (who is in charge of making sure there is no christian worship) found a home where Christians were gathered and worshiping. Dr. Tom White notes that usually they are not able to report stuff like this but the Chinese government was more than happy to post on their government website that they had found these worshipers and arrested the two people who lived at the house along with destroying all of the literature that had to do with Christ.

I wish that I could post the picture that was in the magazine but it is not online and I don't have a scanner, but let me try to explain it for you. Five Chinese people have escaped away into the country side dug a pit that is ankle deep and brought water in to fill the trench in order to baptize a young lady.

My first thought is it's amazing to see the lengths people go to in oppressed nation to be baptized, and in America? People will argue about the necessity of baptism.

My second thought is we Americans take our freedom way to lightly. We don't have to sneak around from house to house to worship, we have the freedom to worship any day and any time we want to, without the fear of being arrested and killed for our faith. Yet on any given Sunday there are always seats empty while others are literally dieing to hear the same message that some of us decided that we didn't need to hear this week because something more important was going on.

Sorry, I will get off my soap box. Reading some of this stuff has really given me a whole new perspective. Maybe today thank God for the freedom you have to worship and ask forgiveness for the wasted opportunities that you have let pass by, it was a huge eye opener to ME!!