Trinity Mount Barker

Thursday night a small group gathered in the church office to pray for Christian brothers and sisters who are persecuted for their faith in Jesus.  It seemed highly appropriate, praying for these members with us of the body of Christ in the middle of our teaching series on prayer!  Here was a chance to put some of what we’ve been learning from the Scriptures into practice.  It wasn’t only us praying.  Christians around the world joined together in prayer this past week as part of the International Day of Prayer for the persecuted church.

Every day around the world, countless thousands of our Christian brothers and sisters suffer violence, intimidation, loss of employment, imprisonment and death simply because they confess Jesus Christ as Lord.  As I mentioned last Sunday, it’s a sad fact that more Christians have died for their faith in Jesus in the last century than in all the previous centuries of the church combined.

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