LEBANON: Love Expels Fear

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🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Just weeks after coming to faith in Christ, Pastor Pierre read Richard Wurmbrand’s book, Tortured for Christ. The book helped him understand, even as a young Christian, that following Christ “is not a cheap path.”

Today, Pierre is a pastor and church leader in Lebanon, a nation facing the challenge of caring for two million refugees from neighboring Syria.

Listen as Pastor Pierre shares about his own walk of faith, why he and his wife chose to name their daughter after a martyr, and how Christians in Lebanon are responding to the flood of Muslim refugees in their nation. Pastor Pierre will also talk about witnessing to Muslims, and he’ll share how he has found that blessings come out of persecution.

Learn more about Bonnie Witherall, the martyr for whom Pastor Pierre and his wife named their daughter, in FOXE: Voices of the Martyrs, and in this interview with her husband, Gary.

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0:00.0	Pierre is a pastor in Lebanon. The way he spreads the gospel can serve as a model for all of us.
0:07.1	First he spends time with unbelievers and gets to know them.
0:10.7	But then when I am having the opportunity to share my genuine
0:14.6	faith and experience of Christ, I share it not aggressively, joyfully, lovingly,
0:20.6	with those whom I love, you know, as if Jesus was standing in my shoes, I have to also stand in his shoes and then behave the same way.
0:32.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:35.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:38.0	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:41.0	Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives
0:46.9	of his followers around the world.
0:49.1	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the
0:54.5	voice of the Martyrs radio network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs
0:58.3	radio. My name is Todd Nettleton and I'm in the studio today in Bartlesville
1:02.1	Oklahoma with Pastor Pierre. and I'm in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1:02.9	with Pastor Pierre.
1:05.2	Pastor Pierre is a gospel worker from the country of Lebanon,
1:09.8	the beautiful country of Lebanon.
1:12.2	He is a pastor, he's a seminary leader, and he is a
1:15.9	long-time follower of Christ in that country. Pastor Pierre,
1:20.4	welcome to Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:23.0	Thank you. It's a great privilege for me to be here in this place who is caring for people
1:28.2	who are racing the torch of the gospel in the difficult areas of the world.
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