WURMBRANDS: Love Your Enemies

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🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

John Grooters spent many months deeply immersed in the story of VOM’s founders, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand. They lived exemplary Christian lives, even loving and witnessing to their torturers. Their example has deeply challenged Grooters, who directed Tortured For Christ – The Movie, as well as the video segments for the WURMBRAND small-group curriculum.

Listen as Grooters shares the philosophy that drove this project, and the challenges for Christian filmmakers competing with big-budget Hollywood studios. John will share how viewers responded to the film—including a 10-year-old boy who committed his life to Christ after seeing Richard and Sabina’s example of following Christ under persecution.

You can receive a complimentary copy of Tortured For Christ – The Movie on DVD when you make a donation to VOM’s work with persecuted Christians. You can learn more about Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand through the Wurmbrand small group study, or by reading WURMBRAND: Tortured For Christ The Complete Story.

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0:00.0	John Groter spent more than a year and a half researching the lives of Richard and Sabina Wernbrand,
0:05.6	the founders of the Voice of the Martyrs. And here's one of the things that he learned from them.
0:12.2	Love your enemies can actually be done.
0:15.0	And it's just not natural to love your enemies.
0:17.0	At any level, it's not human, it's not natural.
0:21.0	Richard's enemies were specific and real and vile and he actually still
0:24.8	as they're beating him shares Christ with them and shares love with them.
0:28.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact he told his disciples that the world
0:35.3	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life of the
0:41.3	Apostles and they're still coming true today in the
0:44.2	lives of his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear
0:48.3	their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
0:54.0	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
0:56.1	My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are in our studio today
0:59.2	in Barlesville, Oklahoma with film director John Grotors. John has been our guest before. He is the
1:06.5	director of Tortured for Christ the movie. He's also the director for the video
1:11.7	segments of the Wernbrand Small Group Study, which hopefully many of you who are listening will have seen.
1:18.0	John, welcome back to Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:21.0	It's always a great joy to be here. It's a great joy to be in
1:25.1	chapel with everybody here with the staff and the volunteers so it's great to be
1:28.8	here. Thank you Todd. We are talking about Torture for Christ the movie. We're now 15 months or so from the time it was in theaters across the country.
1:39.0	The DVD is now widely available. A lot of people have seen the film.
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