"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." - Romans 1:16
In July 2009, Gospel for Asia-supported film team members Bhanu Singh and Mareechi Malik were showing a Christian Film in a remote village in India. About an hour into the film, several anti-Christian extremists wandered into the meeting area where about 200 villagers were paying close attention to what was happening on the movie screen. The agitators became angry when they saw how interested the villagers were in the missionaries’ film, so they decided to damage the team’s equipment. They overturned the team’s generator, completely destroying it. The extremists then began to beat Bhanu and Mareechi for trying to share the Gospel. Villagers saw what was happening and rushed to defend the two men. They later escorted the missionaries safely home. "Persecution will happen, and people will get hurt” said Daniel Punos of Gospel for Asia. “But at the same time, the people who do the persecution are often the very first ones who come to Christ.”
Do not be afraid of sharing your faith in Christ, even when you face possible persecution. Today in prayer, praise the Lord for His Gospel and seek to share it with others.
"The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches." - Charles Hodge
God's Word: "I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit." - Romans 15:15-16
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2010, Devotional E-Mail
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