You're listening to the podcast Think Biblically. Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

We're here with David Curry today.

David is president of Open Doors, USA, the organization that serves the persecuted church around the world.

Dave, we're delighted to have you with us today. Thanks for taking some time to be with us on this.

Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure to be here at Talbot.

Many of our listeners, David, might not be all that familiar with the Ministry of Open Doors.

So what is the mission of Open Doors and what exactly is the kind of work that open doors does as an organization?

Well, the mission of open doors is to connect and strengthen the persecuted church around the world.

Now we started 60 some years ago with we had a very iconic

founder's name was Brother Andrew many people perhaps listening would know Brother

Andrew he wrote a very famous book called God Smugler and essentially he started this idea that he wanted to

take God's word to people who did not have access to it who were living behind borders

and walls or in cultures where Christianity was opposed where

people who harassed for their faith and and today of course there are countries

weren't even worse than that where people lose their life for their faith. So open doors is there to be

an assist to the church, to help them, to comfort them, to train them in some cases and

fundamentally just like 60 some years ago to get them access to the Bible

and Bible training. Can you tell our listeners a little bit more about the

sort of the life and the legacy that Brother Andrew has left.

He's still alive today.

He's still alive today.

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