Believers Eastern Church and the Sisters of Compassion

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, talks about an order within Believers Eastern Church called Sisters of Compassion. Seeing firsthand these sisters in Christ work with and care for victims of leprosy—the poor and the downtrodden, “the least of these”—Hank bears witness to their utter selflessness and humility. Working in the most difficult of circumstances, the Sisters of Compassion not only talk about Christ but demonstrate the love of Christ through their selfless acts of service. And great will be their reward in eternity. These women have grasped the reality of Christ’s Resurrection from the dead. Like the martyrs, they know that they too will one day be resurrected “immortal, imperishable, incorruptible”—and they will receive the “crown of righteousness,” “the crown of glory,” and “the crown of life.” So they are willing to endure hardship for the sake of the gospel, with eyes that look beyond time and space—eyes that truly pierce into the eternal spectrum.

For more information, see Gospel for Asia, the Sisters of Compassion, https://www.gfa.org/women/sisters-of-compassion/.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Instrument
0:11.9	broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short. In my last short, I talked about Believers Eastern
0:17.7	Church and how they have an order of sisters called Sisters of Compassion.
0:23.0	And I have now in my travels in Southeast Asia met many of them and had an opportunity to ask
0:29.9	them why they do what they do. The first thing that strikes me in talking to these Sisters of
0:37.3	compassion who I've seen firsthand working with lepers, the poor and the downtroddened, the least of these, my brother, the poorest of the poor.
0:50.0	I've watched them, and what strikes me about them is their selflessness and their humility.
0:59.0	They work in the most difficult of circumstances.
1:03.4	Can you imagine working in 120 degree heat or 110 degree heat?
1:10.1	And these sisters of compassion are in the mud, so to speak.
1:15.0	I mean, they're kneeling at the feet of lepers and cleaning their sores. You see the holes in the
1:21.8	feet of lepers. You see the fingers that have disappeared, the toes that have disappeared. And you see the light of Christ because these sisters of compassion have not only talked about Christ,
1:36.0	but they have demonstrated Christ through their lives,
1:42.9	through their selfless acts of service, through their diligence,
1:50.0	to see them care for people that we might never even look at because they're certainly not glamorous, at least not by some standards,
2:04.6	but having an opportunity to speak to
2:09.6	these people in various circumstances
2:12.6	and not just speak to them.
2:14.6	I took the time to look every one of them in the eyes.
2:21.1	And in those eyes, I have seen the light of Christ.
2:28.4	I've also seen hopelessness.
2:33.1	I've seen their desperate desire to be prayed over, mothers thrusting their
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