Underground churches....

I'm saddened when I read about other countries who are having to create underground churches in order to worship the Lord, it is so sad to know that they can't publicly worship the Lord Jesus Christ like people in America can. They have to hide and do it in secret, and many of them who get caught doing so have even been tortured. click here and read the attached article about some of these very people who are being tortured severly for claiming Jesus.

The music group dc Talk tells many of the stories they’ve heard from the Underground Church in their popular book Jesus Freaks. “For some, standing up for Jesus actually means dying for Him,” dc Talk member Toby McKeehan says. “These are the people who are changing our world by refusing to lay aside their relationship with Jesus for the mere sake of being accepted.”

How many Bibles do you have in your house? In the Underground Church, a single page of God’s Word might be all you ever have. In prisons around the world, Scriptures, sermons and hymns have to be written secretly on slips of cigarette paper and smuggled between cells. Outside of prison, Bibles and other Christian literature are printed by underground printing presses and distributed to the house churches. If the printers are caught, they could be imprisoned, but that doesn’t stop the Christians.

Most persecuted Christians aren’t really any stronger than the rest of us, though. Every Christian has something that he or she has to overcome. In Jesus Freaks, the men of dc Talk said, “While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish deeds to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.”

If all of us will 100% get out and tell the world about Jesus there wouldn't have to be underground churches in this world, hiding to learn of Him and grow in Him, instead we could all be worshipping Him together and get this world where He would love for it to be.

So what do you say let's get out there people and tell the world, so the world doesn't have to hide! I'm up for the challenge, would you join me? There are all kinds of things we can do to share Jesus in this world, let's find them and get out and hit the pavement.......