They’ll seize your Bible, throw you into prison, tear down your church, and maybe kill you–and yet Iran has the fastest-growing Christian community in the world today (https://churchleaders.com/news/288330-story-irans-church-two-sentences-mark-howard-the-gospel-coalition.html?fbclid=IwAR0-1KM_hnSACWu1SACPTxF17Aje8U-O1Qn14af476K-4QlJWfpNJzIZElw), according to Churchleaders.com.
And that’s not all. The country with the second-fastest Christian growth is Afghanistan.
Why is this happening? Two chief reasons are mentioned: the Iranian people have grown increasingly disgusted with their Islamist government’s addiction to violence and cruelty; and grass-roots evangelism has been very effective in Iran. If you subscribe to The Voice of the Martyrs, you already know that.
In fact, Christianity in Iran has grown more in the last 20 years than in the previous 13 centuries put together.
I am sure that God remembers that it was Cyrus the Persian, in obedience to His will, who freed God’s people from captivity in Babylon and commanded that God’s Temple be rebuilt.
Now, maybe, it’s time for the people of Iran to be set free.
Proof once again that God’s will is sovereign, unstoppable and forever prevailing.
Amen!
Christianity thrives in persecution. Like fire, the more they try to stomp it out, the more it spreads.
I read where 70% of the Iranian people would choose Christianity over Islam if they had the freedom to do so. Before the 1970’s, women in Iran didn’t have to wear hijabs and all the man-made rules that go with it. Salvation is God’s business – our business is to pray for it for all peoples, and by our actions demonstrate the kingdom of Christ on earth.
This is truly heartening news.