EXCLUSIVE: A FAMILY THAT STAYS TOGETHER  PRAYS TOGETHER by LAURIE JALBERT

LAURIE JALBERT

In a time when violence is on the rise, we are bombarded with news of severe persecution against Christians. Story after story of imprisonment, torture, rape, beatings and beheadings are being reported daily. The question I must ask is: Is there still a disconnect between the American Christian culture and the persecuted believers overseas?

Why is it that we can receive persecution news in “real time” and yet lack the heart to pray. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) is on November 2nd. Advocacy organizations are working tirelessly to bring unity to our dysfunctional Spiritual family but research shows a lack of interest in participating in the IDOP.

The Persecution Resource Council reported, “During the week prior to the 2013 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, we reviewed the websites of the one hundred seventy leading churches and denominations. Nearly all of these leading Christian organizations had Veteran’s Day- or Thanksgiving-related “food for the hungry” programs advertised on their home pages.heart to pray?

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As we watch our brothers and sisters persecuted not just in the Syrian civil war, but the 1,000,000 Chaldean Christians run out of their 2000 year old homes when the US military handed the Iraq (Babylon) government over to the local Shiite government.
As we watch our Coptic brothers lose their lives and their churches in Egypt.
As we watch Christian news broadcasts about Nigerian islamic terrorists raiding Christian boarding schools and killing teachers and children….and on and on…what are we to do? How are western Christians to respond and react to these atrocities against the Ekklesia (Body of Christ)?

Most folks in our churches do not know it is even happening because, well, frankly, most north American church leadership (Canada and the USA) do not really care about our brethren being persecuted in foreign lands. Some may mention something about it in a passing prayer, but that’s it. It took a US congressman – Frank Wolfe (R Virginia) to embarrass two nationally known preachers into responding to the plight of the persecuted…which they did almost like a cheap politician would. So it is really up to the individual Christian to care about this because God will hold us each accountable….and the church leadership of the West will be held to a much higher standard than we are going to be held to.

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