Filming Tortured For Christ (DVD Now Available)
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The Voice of the Martyrs
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
John Grooters directed Tortured For Christ – The Movie, a feature-film telling the amazing story of VOM's founders, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand. The story has inspired millions of Christians over the past 50 years through Pastor Wurmbrand's best-selling book, Tortured For Christ.
Listen as John talks about turning this iconic book into a film, including the challenge of portraying Richard's suffering in an appropriate way. John will also share how God's hand was on the production, including snowfall and sunshine in Romania that miraculously cooperated with the filming schedule.
Hear how God led John to just the right song for the close of the film—a song written by a Christian cellmate of Richard Wurmbrand in prison! You'll hear how Richard's faith impacted John as he studied the story and created the film, and how he hopes it will also impact the faith of the viewers, including ending the movie not with a scene of suffering but a scene of American Christians worshipping the Lord.
US Residents: as a THANK YOU for your generous donation in the month of March to support VOM's work assisting persecuted Christians, VOM will send you a complimentary copy of Tortured For Christ - The Movie on DVD. You can give online here.
VOM Radio host, Todd Nettleton, has also been a guest on John's podcast, "No Shame," which is available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can hear the interview with Todd by clicking here.
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| 0:00.0 | Richard Wernbrand, the founder of the Voice of the Martyrs, was sent to jail by communists for sharing his faith in Christ. |
| 0:07.0 | While in one of the prisons in Romania where he was held, he was sent to the infamous room four and the only people sent to |
| 0:16.1 | room four were people with two weeks or less to live. John Groters tells the |
| 0:21.3 | story it was the death cell and Richard was sent to, |
| 0:24.2 | he had tuberculosis so bad, he had been beaten, |
| 0:26.5 | he was so weak and he was on death store |
| 0:28.8 | and he's sent there for the final two weeks of his life. |
| 0:31.4 | But, you know, God spares his life. |
| 0:33.9 | He's in that room for more than two years. |
| 0:36.5 | Two years, it's ridiculous. |
| 0:38.9 | And he ushers into death many, many, many other men. |
| 0:43.0 | And he says many men entered room for an atheist, |
| 0:45.5 | but not one died an atheist. |
| 0:48.0 | And that's just his testimony. |
| 0:49.4 | That's not his philosophy. |
| 0:50.7 | He watched men make peace with God, even who had lived wretched lives. |
| 0:55.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 1:00.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 1:03.4 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 1:06.4 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles, |
| 1:09.4 | and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:13.7 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
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