CHINA: Don’t Go to Church, Or Else…

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🗓️ 31 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“Brother Enfu” is the pastor of an unregistered (illegal) church in China. Every time his church meets, members know police could raid the service and close down their meeting. Other churches in the area have already been closed. Church members have been told to stop attending services, or risk losing their jobs.

How do Christians deal with the constant, oppressive surveillance state that is modern-day China? “Everything is illegal in China,” Enfu says. So how do Christians overcome fear to continue serving Christ in spite of the high cost they may be asked to pay?

Listen as Brother Enfu shares how persecution is becoming more intense in China, and how pastors and churches are responding—and the gospel continues to spread. Enfu also gives specific ways to pray for brothers and sisters in the Chinese church, and for him and other church leaders.

Brother Enfu has been on VOM Radio previously; you can hear that conversation here.

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0:00.0	Imagine if you're
0:02.0	you, and threaten to take away your job
0:04.0	if you didn't stop going to church.
0:08.0	Brother Infu is the pastor of an unregistered church in China.
0:12.0	He says that kind of employment-based persecution
0:15.9	is happening all the time.
0:18.0	Some of our members, their bosses have come to them if they work for the national
0:22.0	with the government and they work for
0:23.7	big schools and universities, they already told them you don't go to church.
0:28.4	Don't be a troublemaker. Don't go with those religion people. What else, they just leave it as it, all else.
0:35.0	They get the point.
0:37.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:42.0	In fact, he told his disciples
0:44.0	that the world would hate them.
0:45.8	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:48.8	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:51.7	and they're still coming true today in the lives of
0:54.0	his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their
0:57.9	inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs
1:02.2	radio network. Welcome again on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:03.0	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton.
1:08.0	A couple years ago we had a guest and had an interview that I recorded inside China.
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