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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 58 views
In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas writes, “The authority of a servant leader, as opposed to the authoritarianism of the mis-leader, came from God and was a leadership of serving those below oneself.” —Jim L. Wilson Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 269. Mark 10:42–45…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 78 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “. . . only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 63. John 14:23 (HCSB) Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Pam Gyang was killed in Jos, Nigeria by Islamic extremists in a mass shooting. Grace Gyang, his pregnant widow stated; “My husband is a friend, and I’m already missing him. But what can I do but thank God for his life. I pray that through his death those who killed him will get to know Jesus as their…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 29 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 50 views
In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 91. Philippians 3:10 (HCSB) My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Christians living in Nigeria are under the constant threat of persecution by Boko Haram. In a recent video Abu Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram tells Christians, “We don’t care about that religion of yours.” At the end of the video the dances and chants, “Christians, you are in trouble; Christians you…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 170 views
What is the worst thing that may happen to us because of our faith? In our current culture we may face ridicule or perhaps some form of censure, but for many in our world, the cost of following Jesus is paid in the blood of martyrdom. The mother of an Egyptian Coptic who was among the 21 Christians beheaded…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
In Cambodia, a ten-story platform holds hundreds of skulls of victims of the killing fields. Security Prison 21, now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh holds the torture chamber where many met their death. In Vilnius, Lithuania the former Soviet KGB prison has been turned into a museum. “You…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
In Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, David Platt writes, “I was in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, teaching in an Indonesian seminary. Before they graduate, the students in this seminary are required to plant a church, with at least thirty…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
I do not know how blessed Christians in Iraq feel right now, but they are enduring a tremendous time of persecution. During Mass at Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Church, five or six gunmen burst into the building and set off two suicide vests filled with ball bearings. “The remaining gunmen took some…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Our world has never been very safe for Christians. Persecution rears its ugly head at different places in different times. In Somalia, unidentified gunmen, believed to be acting on behalf of family or relatives, murdered 17-year-old Nurta Mohamed Farah in an apparent honor killing. The young girl had…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
It was A.D. 111. The governor of Bithynia was a lawful man named, Pliny, the younger. He wanted a peaceful reign, but it was not to be. Christianity was the problem. It was so prevalent in his province that the idol temples were all but abandoned. Christianity was catching on like wildfire. Something…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
PERSECUTION The Thirty Year’s War, A timeline of Iran’s theocracy, documents the persecution of Christians and Christian churches. Recent events show that the time of persecution is not passed. In February 2005, Pastor Hamid Pourmand was sentenced to three years in prison for apostasy. In November of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
PERSECUTED CHURCH Martyrdom is not just an ancient act. Many are still losing their lives for accepting Jesus Christ as Lord. Mansuur Mohammad, a Somali worker received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior in 2006. Militants from the al Shahab group captured him on the morning of September 23, 2008 and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 56 views
Stephen "And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." Acts 7:60 Stephen preached a gospel message to those who gathered to hear him speak, but unlike his friend Peter, he did not see three thousand people saved.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Faithfulness Pastor Mark (Yu Chao) watched his father die for his faith during China's Cultural Revolution. The Red Guard arrested his father for preaching the gospel and beat him within an inch of his life. The guards made Mark and his son watch as they tortured him, breaking several of his bones, and…