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I know I said in my last post I was going to share about our friend Jesse...but I think I'll wait a day or so to gather my thoughts about that...instead I want to share what our Pastor talked about today in church. He is teaching about the 7 churches in Revelation. This week he shared about the Church of Smyrna. (Revelation 2:8-11) This is one of two churches in Revelation that nothing negative was written about. Here's a church that truly was persecuted. We as US Christians whine and complain about our churches being persecuted and we truly don't even know here in the US about persecution. We think because the government has taken prayer out of school we are persecuted...Did you know that according to Wilkipedia (under the word religious persecution)...It is estimated that over 1.5 million Christians have been killed by the Janjaweed, the Arab Muslim militia, and even suspected Islamists in northern Sudan since 1984. ??? Can you even image? I truly can not! It's funny because last week at church the youth are doing the Sarmaritian Purse Shoeboxes. Our family decided to do 3. Yesterday we went shopping. I think it was some what of an eye opener to my children and myself about how truly blessed we are to live in a FREE country. Some of these countries live in condition we had over 200 years ago. Maybe they live in even worse conditions than that. We as Americans forget HOW truly blessed we really are! Not only do we live in a blessed society physicallyand PTL a modern society, but overall I think we live in a blessed society religiously...yet how often we forget that (I'm preachin' to myself mostly). Not sure what else I need to or want to say about this...I might be coming back and editing (adding to it) this later... Blessings! |
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