Being a Christian minister in a Muslim (anything) is always a losing preposition.
Yes, but it is still doing the Lord’s work and will.
Our lives here on Earth mean little; our reward in Heaven is great.
I can’t think of a better place to spread the Word than in the belly of the Beast. I also acknowledge I don’t have the guts to do so like these blessed men.
RE: Being a Christian minister in a Muslim (anything) is always a losing preposition.
This pastor has been ministering in Turkey for close to a quarter of a century without any issues.
Only AFTER Erdogan came to power did his work become suspect. This came to a head after the failed coup against Erdogan a few years ago.
The Turkish government suspected a cleric living in Pennsylvania as the mastermind behind the coup. They used Pastor Brunson as leverage to force the USA to extradite this cleric.
“Being a Christian minister in a Muslim (anything) is always a losing preposition.”
ALL the nations of the world belong to God, and He has given them to His Son:
Psalm 2:7b-8
You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
Christ commanded His followers to take His message to EVERY nation:
Matthew 28:19-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
God does not require every individual Christian to go into a Muslim country, but it is part of the mission of the Church which ALL Christians must support.
By the way, ALL of the seven churches specifically addressed by Christ in the final book of the Bible, and which symbolize the last generation of churches in the world before He returns, were located in modern-day Turkey.
Revelation 1:11
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, and what you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
Not at all. Over the last 40 years, the Christian population has exploded in Nigeria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. There are thousands becoming Christians every day.
The trouble is, it may cost your life at any time. But it's worth it.