The first Christian Martyr. Acts 6:5-8:3.
Today we hear daily in our media reports of the deaths of Christians in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. But many more die across the globe in China, India, the Muslim world, tribal and political violence in Africa and South-America.
Meanwhile Christians die in the Britain and the U.S.A. for their faith, or good deeds. The world does not love us, because we do not continue to tell lies and live in the darkness. We are alive within the New Life, that the Holy Spirit of God is within us. We will be honest and tell the truth. We will also help those in need, in the world and in the Church and not find escuses to justify Sin.
Stephen was murdered by Libertarians not because he had a faith in God, but because he spoke a truth that they did not want to hear. We will be persecuted and some of us may go home, but even if we are attacked, provoked we must learn to forgive and not react.
Ephesians 4:23, 32, Colossians 3:10, Hebrews 12:24, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 John 2:9, Revelation 3:12.
Ask me and I will tell you! 