Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my Heroes. As a Christian Pastor he stood up for what he believed in and stood up for Justice. Today as I have been reading A Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I am reminded of Saeeds imprisonment in Iran because of his Christian faith. This letter reminds me of the importance for each of us to stand up and be a voice for the persecuted Christians. We can not be silent. Please continue to pray and contact your government officials and be a voice for Saeed and persecuted Christians. Here is an excerpt from A Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. : I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their thus saith the Lord far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. ...I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial outside agitator idea... God Bless you all! Naghmeh
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:45:55 +0000