Jews Urge Christians to Stand Up to Persecution--"Learn from our example," they urge

Persecution.org ^ | 3-19-97 | Larry Witham

[Caipirabob]

Pioneers of the 30-year effort to save Soviet Jewry urged Christians yesterday to use the lessons of the Jewish experience in defending their brethren being persecuted around the world.

Worthy adice. Hang tough together or surely hang seprately...Ben Franklin's advice still stands the test of time. Or has the left made in "not PC" to use his name?!?

[SJackson]

It is from 97.

I don't think raising issues qualifies as aggression. Martyrdom doesn't work for me, i'll file this one under lessons not learned.

[Ciexyz]

Re: Post #8 - good link to read about Senator John Kerry's duplicity in failing to protect Christians in Vietnam

[SJackson]

Yeah, I wish that issue would be raised. So much for the heroic Senators concern about the people of Vietnam.

[Texas2step]

Thanks for posting. Will read later. :-)

[Zack Nguyen]

"The international persecution of Christians must stop, and Americans must lead the effort to stop it," said Lieberman, adding that he will mention the treatment of Chinese Christians to government officials he will meet in Bejing next week.

Kudos to Senator Leiberman. Bump.

[Zack Nguyen]

Christians have became too nice , too passive, uncomplaining and inoffensive. The murderers believe they can get away with it and so far they are right.

Our government needs to start linking trade benefits and other ecpnomic incentives to this issue. And it will take more prayer!

[Zack Nguyen]

The solution is not through political action, but through prayer and obedience to God's Word. God can fight our battles for us.

I think we need to move forward in prayer and repentance as well, but we can't leave the poor man on the side of the road bleeding to death. We have to help him. It takes both a purely spiritual action and a physical action.

[livius]

Yes, I too think it's preferable to avoid martyrdom!

[the invisib1e hand]

Hmmm. 1. I think Lieberman is the only rat with a brain. 2. I really get tired of "Christians" saying that pacifism is a tenet of Christianity. It is not and should not be.

Lieberman has surprised me of late.

pacifism: Personally, I don't think Jesus died to emasculate us.

[John Will]

"He is without a sword shall sell his cloak to buy one. "-Jesus.

[Texas2step]

Excellent post with some very good points. However, I think this issue is much harder to address because the people groups are in so many places at one time.

For a campaign to be effective, I think it needs to be focused in one place at a time. Where to place the focus? Who's going to take leadership of this plight?

Then you have the Christians who say, "Jesus tells us that we're going to be persecuted (which is true, by the way), and it's just a matter of time before it's our time (and some say we already are being persecuted - maybe so, but not to the extent of Christians in most other countries).

We are taught to look for the 2nd coming of Christ, and in that looking forward, we sometimes lose the ability to look around. In some respects, missyme is correct, that Christians do take up ministries for everyone, including Christians, but our efforts are so splintered as to be rendered less effected. We have paralysis by analysis, at time.

So, what to to do? That's a hard one. We need someone to step forward and do the unpopular of leading multi-denominational efforts in these areas. We have some who are trying to lead efforts that are needed, but none have yet been successful in really uniting the many different Christian denominations. Tough to succeed in this environment.

The Christian voice has been muted in Europe and is coming under attack in the U.S. These attacks are another reason we have been ineffective in helping our Christian brothers and sisters in countries of persecution. It's going to take someone like President Bush to use the bloody pulpit and the power and might of the United States, I believe, before we can come together enough to overcome the problems we have.

I realize this post is kind of disjointed, but I just typed my thoughts as they came up. Thanks again for posting.

[DTA]

"The international persecution of Christians must stop, and Americans must lead the effort to stop it," said Lieberman, adding that he will mention the treatment of Chinese Christians to government officials he will meet in Bejing next week.

Lieberman is shameless hypocrit.

Lieberman activelly supported persecution of Christians in Kosovo and openly supported Al Qaeda ally

It is disgrace that U.S. is sending him to Beijing. Chicoms will mop the the floor with this rag.

[Taiwan Bocks]

Jewish leadership is generously exhibited and shared in so many spheres of the international community.

Bigots don't know what they are missing. Or do they just stew in their coveting?

Unfortunately American Christians rarely resemble Israelis, they more behave as sheeple.

Thanks for the ping.