[RaceBannon]

The Bible is clear: Our war is not over what we believe and how the world sees us. Our war is with our own flesh, over sin in our lives, over whether we will submit to what God says or to what Satan tries to deceive into us.

In this, to place our trust in a government's actions means we are not placing our trust in what God said.We are to place our trust in God alone.

A Nation that faces persecution also faces an increase in the genuine faith of what the Bible teaches. It is no illusion that they say the Church is planted with the blood of martyrs.

What is wrong with Christianity today, is that we seek to 'fix' things through government instead of prayer and obedience to God's word.

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

The correct response first, is for people who call themselves Christians to repent of sin in their lives, and turn to God to be the leader in their lives. We are also to pray for the leaders of those countries where this persecution is taking place, that they come to know who God is rightly, and that they are blessed and prosper. That is what the Bible says.

It is what people here like me need to remember more often, also, our problems we often complain about are nothing in the light of eternity. What we need is to get right with God in our own hearts. That is the change that society needs to see.

[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.