Todays Devotion: October 1 Biblical Boldness …and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14 Recommended Reading Matthew 24:1-14 In The Global War on Christians, John L. Allen Jr. calls persecution against Christians “the most dramatic religion story of the early twenty-first century, yet one that most people in the West have little idea is even happening … Christians today indisputably are the most persecuted religious body on the planet.”1 Allen goes on to catalogue blood-chilling stories of believers being oppressed, imprisoned, vilified, and slain around the world each day. And yet the Church is growing. Reports from Latin America, Asia, and Africa tell of incredible numbers coming to Christ. Even in the West, there are signs of revival and a resurgence of evangelism as Millennials search for an alternative to the emptiness of secularism. In His sermon on the Signs of the Times, Jesus said, “You will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake… And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world” (Matthew 24:9, 14). The persecution of Christians has never been worse, but the proclamation of Christ has never been greater—just as Jesus predicted. It’s time for biblical boldness. The world today may have big problems, but what would it have been like had not hundreds of thousands of Christians given their lives sacrificially… to meet its physical and spiritual needs? Patrick Johnstone, in The Future of the Global Church 1John L. Allen Jr., The Global War on Christians (New York: Crown, 2013), introduction. Read-thru-the-Bible Matthew 5 – 6
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