Real martyrs – not bloodthirsty murderers pretending to be such, but meek people spreading the word and paying for it with their lives:
A ministry that assists the persecuted Church worldwide is trying to put pressure on North Korea’s communist government, after a Christian was executed there for distributing the Bible.
Activists in South Korea reported recently that communist officials in North Korea publicly executed a 33-year-old mother of three. Ri Hyon Ok…
…Jim Jacobson, president of Christian Freedom International, says the execution signals a major change in the crackdown on religion in North Korea. He believes the house church movement will be strengthened by the senseless murder.
“There’s a really opposite and equal reaction to this that means more Bibles will probably go in as a result of this. Christians will be evermore strengthened in their faith, as unbelievable as that sounds,” he admits. “The more you persecute Christians, the more Christianity thrives.”
My heart falters when I read such things, wondering if I would have the courage to accept such a fate. I simply don’t know – but I do know courage and faith, and this is it.
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