Cannot grow without It?
The Christian faith is the only religion that increases by persecution and we see this from the first one that occurred in Jerusalem, after Pentecost. It may have been a terrible time, but from it the Church spread to Damascus in Syria and to Antioch in what is now south-east modern Turkey!
During the work of the Apostle Paul new Churches were established in Asia, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Rome and both Macedonia and Spain. Within fifty years there were Christians in Iran, N-Africa, the Arabian peninsula and India.
It is terrible today to see Chinese believers being attacked by the state, others driven from their home in the Muslim world and restrictions still placed on them throughout Roman Catholicism, apart from our own new secular humanistic societies were sin is justified as equality and human idealism?
Matthew/Levi 5:10-12, Acts 6:7, 8:1-3, 22:4, 26:11, Galatians 1:13, Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4.
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