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Faith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

“If we want revival in our communities, then let us learn from those being revived.” For many Western Christians, the experience of suffering and persecution is remote. For Chinese Christians, on the other hand, persecution is a regular aspect of the Christian life. If a Christian from the West was transported to a Chinese house church, the topic of suffering would be ever-present in preaching...

years to rely on this promise of Jesus. There are at least four things to learn from these verses. Not, “Blessed are you if people insult you.” Every beatitude is a characteristic of a Christian. Every Christian must be poor in spirit, or you are not a Christian; every Christian must hunger and thirst after righteousness, or you are not a Christian. This is the last of the Beatitudes, which means Jesus assumes that if you are a Christian, you will be persecuted.
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