The Soviet newspaper, Molodoij Gruzii, reported the imprisonment of three Christians. Their crime was starting an organized chain letter to help people all across the Soviet Union understand the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Unable to publish Bibles or Christian books, they had begun sending out multiple copies of these letters and asking recipients to make copies and pass them on. Through this creative method of spreading the gospel, thousands of letters had reached into many areas of the Soviet Union. The children especially liked them because they were not allowed to attend church, and the letters became an integral part of their Christian teaching.

In addition, these letters helped to bolster the faith of Christians throughout the country during that time. After years of government repression and interference in their churches, they were ready to try something bold and new. They sincerely wanted everyone to know about the love of God, and despite the restrictions placed upon them, their brilliant simplicity allowed the message to spread throughout the town of Tbilisi and even into some areas of the Ukraine!

Another newspaper article stated, “The Christians have flooded our town with their writings.” It described this coordinated effort as “an offensive on the part of the believers.”

Who could predict the far-reaching effects of a mere chain letter!

After fifty years of tyranny against Christianity, Soviet officials felt threatened by a chain letter. Their cowardly response demonstrates the power contained in God’s Word. Oppression does not yield to human effort. It does not soften with feelings of sympathy. It only resists the powerful Word of God—alive and active in the lives of believers. Satan trembles at the power contained in God’s Word. Are we as aware of its power as its adversaries are? If it has been a long time since you experienced awe when reading Scripture, ask God for a second chance. Ask him to show you his power and experience the Word’s effect on your life today.

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We have been repeatedly asked about a recently published book called The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, by Candida Moss, professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Notre Dame University. In the book, she asserts that early Christian martyr stories (first three centuries of the church) either were forgeries (“pious fraud”) or that the original stories were edited, rewritten, and altered to fit personal, theological, ecclesiastical, and/or political agendas. She writes that stories of an afterlife for martyrs were invented to protect God’s reputation since God did not come through and save them before death. The stories, she believes, are unreliable at best, obscured by being worked over, or were made-up. “The purpose of this book is to show that the foundations for this idea [that there were legitimate martyrs in the early church] are imaginary,” she writes. They are “inspirational fiction.”

She states that Christians were prosecuted (not persecuted) because Romans saw them as disloyal citizens, not merely because they were Christians. In other words, the Romans did not prosecute them for their faith; Roman emperors were barely aware that Christians existed. She plays a semantic game with her readers at this point: Christians were prosecuted because they were atheistic (putting the public at risk of not receiving the blessings of the gods), anti-social (refusing to participate in pagan feasts that were often immoral), and disloyal (refusing to call the emperor “Lord”). “Just because Christians were prosecuted or executed, even unjustly, does not necessarily mean that they were persecuted,” she writes. “Persecution implies that a certain group is being unfairly targeted for attack and condemnation, usually because of blind hatred.” Christians were a threat to political instability, she claims, and were “uncooperative, stubborn, and difficult.” The problem with her argument is that Christians were seen this way because of their faith and loyalty to Jesus Christ—which is a religious issue with broader implications. They refused to go with the program if it was idolatrous and immoral. They were prosecuted because they were persecuted.

Moss makes bold assertions based on less-than-credible documentation (the thrust of her argument is that what she says is true because she says so) and debunks church fathers like Ignatius, Irenaeus, Justin, Tertullian, and the historian Eusebius. She casts negative light upon early Christian writers but speaks positively of the anti-Christian Greek philosopher Celsus and contemporary radical historians like British Marxist historian C.M.E. de Ste. Croix. She uses supposition and insinuation to support her arguments and equates classical hero stories to stories of Christian martyrs (implying that this is where Christians got the idea of martyrdom). “Scholars hypothesize,” she writes, “that this idea of delayed judgment and eschatological reward developed because these promises of immediate reward were constantly unfulfilled [meaning that people died for their faith rather than being blessed]. As a result and in order to avoid the conclusion that God was either notoriously unreliable or fundamentally incompetent, the idea of future eschatological reward and punishment emerged” (47) [Italics mine].

Moss is saying that these ideas emerged to protect the reputation of God! Eusebius was well acquainted with those who were undergoing persecution, but that does not mean he was interested in presenting the facts (216) [Italics mine]! “His portrayal of Christianity as a church of martyrs was strategic. It allowed him to use martyrs to further other claims he wanted to make.” There was, in fact, competition between writers of martyrdom stories (245). She trivializes the stories of martyrs by stating that the gory stories of the deaths of the disciples of Christ were “wildly appealing: they were the campfire stories and bestselling novels of their day” (6). It carried the fictional tradition on from generation to generation, getting gorier until Christians were victorious over Rome (7).

She hits a low point when she says that the Gospel of Mark sought to show Jesus’ “human side.” A little too human according to Moss and also to the great ancient skeptic, the cynical Celsus, whom she introduces as a “well-educated second-century pagan critic of Christianity.” Celsus mocks Christ’s words about asking the Father to let the cup pass from him. Moss comments: “It’s human to die, but to many it seemed a little weak to whine about it ahead of time” (58) [Italics mine].

Although this book does not add to her credibility as a scholar, Moss does make a few valid points that we need to consider:

• Persecution is complex. There may be more than one reason why people are persecuted (e.g., because of their ethnicity, they are perceived as a political threat by totalitarian governments seeking to bring everyone into conformity, or they were born into a minority faith community that the majority will not tolerate).
• Persecution stories should be well documented.
• Some have a “persecution complex” that should not be encouraged. There are those who see everything negative that comes into their lives as persecution caused by their faith. It is a psychological issue based on an unrealistic assessment of the facts.

Reviewed by Roy Stults, Ph.D.

Roy Stults, PhD, is the Online Workshop Coordinator and Educational Services Coordinator for The Voice of the Martyrs. He graduated from Olivet Nazarene University (BA and MA), Nazarene Theological Seminary (M.Div.), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Doctor of Missiology), and The University of Manchester (England) with a PhD (theology). A Vietnam veteran, Dr. Stults served as a missionary for 19 years and pastored U.S. churches for eight years. Prior to joining VOM, he was a Professor of Religion at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

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One of the things The Voice of the Martyrs has consistently encouraged readers to do is to write letters to Christians in prison. In the museum space in our headquarters building is a list of prisoners in Soviet prisons in the early 1970s, as well as a poster of prisoners from that era that was sent out to US readers and churches to encourage them to write letters. Today VOM offers a letter writing kit for people who prefer writing with pen and paper and an online tool for those who prefer electronic tools in their communication.

But do the letters make a difference?

Who better to answer that question than formerly-imprisoned Christians? Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh spent 259 days in Evin Prison in Iran because of their Christian faith and activities. During their time in prison VOM featured the pair on www.PrisonerAlert.com and encouraged American Christians to write letters of encouragement to them.

Now, with the release of their book, Captive in Iran, we can see what the letters meant to them. Maryam writes this section of their story:

One of the visitors, a middle-aged man with a round face, looked at me. “Are you Miss Rostampour?”

“Yes, I am.”

“Do you have any idea how long we have been waiting for you?” I was too surprised to speak. “You have caused a great deal of trouble for us with these letters of yours. Every day, we have to open and read letters about you and your case.”

“You have to read letters about me?”

“Yes! At least forty or fifty letters a day that have been sent to you from all over the world.”

“If the letters are sent to me, why should you be reading them? Perhaps this is another example of the abuse of human rights in this country—that you open and read other people’s mail.”

“Did you really expect us to give them to you so you could get more encouragement to defy us?”

We don’t need to read the letters to be encouraged by them, I thought, my heart filled with joy. The world is watching you. We have a family of faith that loves us and cares for us. We are not alone!

Letters to Christians in prison DO make a difference! Order your Prisoner Letter Writing Kit or log on to www.PrisonerAlert.com and write a letter to a currently-imprisoned Christian today! You may also want to order a copy of Captive In Iran and read Maryam and Marziyeh's amazing story.

Has it ever occurred to you that Muslims might be as afraid of you as you are of them?

An Arab Muslim woman studying in the United States confided in me that her family was worried about her living in America. “They tried to stop me,” Najma said. “My aunt visited me and warned me, ‘Don’t you know America is full of violence? They will kill you on the street!’”

Together, we laughed at her aunt’s fears, knowing how far it was from the truth of the sleepy town in which Najma lived. Her aunt had based her impression of America and Americans on violent films she had seen. But Najma’s reservations evaporated once she began meeting average Americans—store clerks, teachers, her host family. They were nothing like the Americans she had seen on TV.

When people ask me, “What do Muslims think of Christians?” a simple answer eludes me. First, which Muslims? To lump all Muslims—the Western convert, the uneducated Bosnian woman, and the Syrian engineer—into one pile and ask what “they think” is presumptuous at best. And second, which Christians? Although you might define Christian as “evangelical” or “practicing Christians,” Muslims don’t define it that way. Most will categorize an entire nation as Christian, so we have to recognize and work with the Muslim’s definition.

“What do Muslims think of Christians?” is a loaded question, with no way around approximations and generalizations. But in a phrase, they are respectful, yet wary.

• Muslims consider Christians “People of the Book” and respect their faith in one God. While still seeing themselves as superior for practicing the best religion, Muslims respect those who worship one God, pray, and treat others kindly. A Muslim recently told me, “Your prophet (Jesus) was the Prophet of Love, that is why Christians are so loving.”
• Muslims are in a love/hate relationship with the West. They love healthcare, technology and some ideas from the West but regret its deteriorating effect on their cultures. Some blame television programs and government policies from the “Christian West” as the reason for problems and sin in their own countries.
• Muslims tend to be wary of Christians. Stories circulate about argumentative, in-your-face polemicists that defame Islam, and most Muslims want to steer clear of a fight. They may be concerned that by befriending a non-Muslim they will be criticized by other Muslims, or even worse, influenced to sin.

These misconceptions run deep, but something stronger can disarm a Muslim’s watertight wariness: initiative on our part. Just as average Americans helped alleviate Najma’s fears, the same holds true when authentic Jesus-followers take the first step with wary Muslims. One perspective shift, coming right up!

Meeting a follower of Jesus should be like a refreshing breeze blowing or an attractive scent alluring. It piques the interest and leaves the other wanting more. As a believer I am instructed to “let [my] conversation be gracious and attractive” in interactions with outsiders (Colossians 4:6 NLT). Gracious. Attractive. That will blow the mind of Muslims…or anyone, for that matter.

Muslims may be hesitant to initiate a relationship, which leaves the ball in our court. I’d hate to have Hollywood do all the talking, wouldn’t you?

Your turn: How much of your opinion of Muslims is based on films and other media? Have you met a Muslim who blew apart your preconceptions?

"Anna" blogs about friendship, culture, and Kingdom-living from her home in the Middle East. She loves Jesus and wants to see Him cherished by her neighbors and people everywhere. Anna will be posting on the Persecution Blog each month. Feel free to ask questions or suggest future topics in the comments section for this post. Anna is a pseudonym, and all names in her posts are changed for security reasons.

Annmarie, a young Slovak Christian, had been in prison for months because of her involvement with the underground church. She was regularly brought to a room where a guard would beat her in order to get information about other Christians in her church.

By God’s grace she was able to resist. She even used these times to tell the guard about the love of Jesus. The guard mocked, “If you don’t tell me secrets of the underground church, I will beat out of you all your loves.”

Annmarie responded, “I have a boyfriend, the sweetest of all. He is love. His love does not seek pleasure but seeks to fill others with joy. Since knowing this boyfriend, I, too, can only love. You love hatred now. I beg you to love Love.”

The guard was so angry that he slapped her until she passed out. When she came to, she saw him sitting quietly as if in deep thought. Finally he asked, “Who is this boyfriend of yours?” Annmarie told him all about Jesus and why he came.

When he asked how to make Jesus his friend too, she told him that he must repent and be baptized. “Then baptize me immediately or I will shoot you,” he demanded.

Annmarie did baptize him, and he later became a prisoner with the very ones he used to beat.

When people are in love, they let everyone know it. They tell their families, their friends, their neighbors, and anyone else who will listen. Love so consumes them that they cannot help but talk about their beloved. In the same way, one’s baptism is a public announcement of being identified with Christ and his community, of being in love with Jesus. Baptism of an adult is a sign to all who witness it—even if only by another prisoner in a cell—that one is ready to follow Christ at all costs. Our love for Christ motivates us to proclaim our commitment to the world. Even if not threatened, do we have courage to tell of our love for Jesus?

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Have you ever read a story about someone and been asked or have asked yourself “What would I do if I was in that situation?”  Working at VOM and reading the stories of the intense persecution our brothers and sisters around the world face causes that to be a question I often ask myself.

Sometimes I am alarmed as I ponder this question, because I don’t know the answer to it. I try to picture myself under the same pressure and threats and pain and I don’t know that I would respond with the same strength that I am amazed to hear our brothers and sisters respond with. Their faith in Christ seems unshaken.

I have recently been reading Captive in Iran, the true story of Maryam and Marziayeh who were arrested for their faith and put into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for 259 days.  Something that Maryam wrote stood out to me right away:

“Fighting my rising panic, I knew we were weak and not brave. Would we deny Christ to save ourselves?  If we failed as Peter had failed, how could we ever forgive ourselves? I prayed for the Lord to keep us strong. We could be brave and resist only in His strength, not our own. Without Christ, we were nothing. With Him, we were covered in His strength and protection. “

If I’m honest, I already know how I would respond if persecuted for my faith. The beauty in this though, our response is not dependent on us and our strength. Note what Maryam said: “We could be brave and resist only in His strength, not our own. Without Christ, we were nothing. With Him, we were covered in His strength and protection.”

I Corinthians says 12:9-10 says, “...My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. “Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” And Matthew 13:11 says “But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.” (NKJV)

So you might always wonder how you would respond in the face of persecution on your own. That same strength that we see in the persecuted church that inspires us is the same strength that God will give you when you are walking in the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We are one body; in the end God’s response through you is the only one that will matter.

"Grace Taylor" is a worker with VOM. She was first introduced to VOM by her parents and grandparents, who received VOM’s newsletter, and through the VOM book Jesus Freaks. She has served in 12 different countries and is passionate about helping expand God’s Kingdom throughout the nations of the world.

We live in a very practical-oriented world. Pragmatism was born in the US—although it is probably that we just gave a name to something that already existed. The main theme of pragmatism “if it works, use it” has opened the door to a lot of good things since the opposite “if it doesn’t work, don’t use it” seems like an obvious truth.

In reality, however, the world is dominated by philosophy that trickles down to the practical level. One of the first uses of philosophy is ideology, when a philosophical perspective becomes a political, religious, or economic system. After discussing the highly theoretical ideas of Whitehead, Oppenheimer, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein, Francis Schaeffer remarks: “these things are not just theoretical in their effect” (He is There and He is not Silent, 53). These philosophies are
changing the world. They have a profound effect upon our daily life even though we are not aware of it.

What people think can work its way into very practical agendas. Karl Marx studied Hegelian Idealism and the end result can now be seen in Marxist revolutionary guerilla movements that are very active in our world today. Some of them are persecuting Christians. We live in a world dominated by ideologies that clash and create tremendous tension in society. Many of these ideologies are contrary to the teachings of Jesus; consequently there is some natural tension between the Christian view and particular ideologies. Some of these ideologies seek to be all-inclusive, believing that everyone should believe their ideology and they will do whatever it takes to bring everyone into their fold. Radical Islam fits in this category. Holding on to our faith and worldview can get us killed in some places.

In the same way, pragmatism can lose sight of moral bounds and appropriate parameters of action when it advocates doing whatever needs to be done to succeed, stepping on human dignity, bypassing justice, and dismissing fairness. It has much in common with the more radical ideologies that desire to conquer the world and ruthlessly endeavor to coerce everyone into their mold. These radical ideologies do not tolerate well the Christian faith, if they tolerate it at all. Christians stand in the way of dominating the minds and hearts of the world. Christians hold Christ as their ultimate loyalty and this is an impediment to radical ideologies that demand total allegiance. North Korea is a perfect example of this intolerance. They have replaced God with their own ideology. This is in reality the essence of the original sin that sought to be autonomous from God. With all their ‘progressive, revolutionary rhetoric,’ they have managed to land back in the Garden of Eden, making the same wrong choice.

For further reading on the subject of philosophy and persecution, go to www.vomclassroom.com and go to the class on “God’s Mission to the World: The Occasion for Persecution—Part 1 Theology of Mission.”

Roy Stults, PhD, is the Online Workshop Coordinator and Educational Services Coordinator for The Voice of the Martyrs. He graduated from Olivet Nazarene University (BA and MA), Nazarene Theological Seminary (M.Div.), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Doctor of Missiology), and The University of Manchester (England) with a PhD (theology). A Vietnam veteran, Dr. Stults served as a missionary for 19 years and pastored U.S. churches for eight years. Prior to joining VOM, he was a Professor of Religion at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

 

Today we will wrap up the excerpts from the testimony of “Mohammed,” a former Muslim who decided to commit his life to Christ, even if it meant he would face rejection and persecution in his native Iran. The words are his, unless otherwise noted in italics. You may want to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 prior to reading today’s post.

I know those who have worshipped in jail; when they come out they never can repeat that experience. Prayer in jail is different than when you pray outside.

After 21 days they took us to a group jail where everybody is there. They took us to a place where there were 400 detainees. In one room there were 12 murderers. There were 65 gay people that had committed other very serious crimes. One of the people who was arrested with me, one of his relatives was in charge of jail. So they took care of him well during those 21 days. They sent him to a better room where there were fewer people. He met me in the jail yard and he took me to his room and gave me tea. And they told me that your room has changed. He was there earlier so they had assigned him a room. He said be careful because the room they are sending you to they are crazy, full of murderers or drug addicts and I will ask my relative to change your room and bring you in with me.

I said if God is sending me there I don’t want to be here. So I drank the tea and I went to my room. It was 65 people in one room. There were 45 beds and 20 people would sleep on the floor.

Fifteen beds, each three bunks, so there were 45 beds with 20 [sleeping] on the floor. I entered and I saw this scene and I was shaken. My knees were weak and I just knelt down, it was really bad. It was too tight and when I sat down there were two people on both sides of me sitting because there was not enough space. Someone asked me if they had just brought me to jail and I said no, I have been here for 21 days.

This person asked me, “Where were you before? If you were in solitary haven’t you gone crazy for being alone there for 21 days? I was in there for six days and went crazy.”

I said, “I was not alone in my cell, I was with God.” He was shaken. When I said I wasn’t alone I was with God, he was shaken and said I want to talk to you. I knew then I was sent there to give him the message and I said we will talk later.

Another person by my side said, “they arrested me four days ago; I haven’t used drugs for four days and my body is hurting a lot.” I put my hands on him and I prayed. Right there he said, “My pain is gone.” So it was confirmed that God had sent me there for a mission. There were three cameras in that room. I was there eight days. In the eight days I was there in that room 24 people came to Christ. Two of those who came to Christ were on death row. They would never come out. So I said God had sent me.

We would go under the beds; I would witness and pray with people under the bed. Because of the cameras I would take people under there to pray the prayer of salvation there so the cameras could not get us. It was the sweetest time of my life.

After five days there they said I could put up bail and get out. I was postponing paying bail to come outside so I could have more time to witness. I was not worrying about my family because I knew that God was taking care of them. All my life belongs to Jesus. So they said you can go, we told you – you can put up bail and go so why don’t you? They were suspicious why I was here when I could go out. So I postponed it for three days but then...I came out...

I was a very violent person before I came to Christ. It was God’s love that made me like this. In jail when the food came everybody was attacking the food, but I would wait until last and would get the least amount of food. It was because of the other prisoners watching out for me, making sure that I would get food. The guards all heard about Jesus...

The day I was out of jail I continued my ministry. And until my last breath I owe Jesus. Whatever I have done it was the Holy Spirit in me. I know who I was and I was so weak before so all the glory goes to Jesus. I remember the folk story of the donkey who Jesus rode on. The donkey went to his mother and said, “They respected me!” And his mother said, “No it wasn’t you. It was who was sitting on you.”

So I feel the same: I am nothing Jesus is everything. Without Jesus I am the same person I was before.

YOUR TURN: If you've been blessed by Mohammed's testimony of faith and courage, share it with your friends. You may want to share via social media, or print it out to share with your pastor or Sunday School class, or even Muslim friends who might be drawn to Mohammed's story of coming to faith.

This week we are sharing excerpts from the testimony of “Mohammed,” a former Muslim who decided to commit his life to Christ, even if it meant he would face rejection and persecution in his native Iran. The words are his, unless otherwise noted in italics. Come back to the Persecution Blog throughout the week to read more of Mohammed's amazing testimony. You may want to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 prior to reading today’s post.

The next day they took us to the judge for my case; he was a religious leader. So this is how they presented my case, or started. They said they had arrested me in a home with another man and two girls and the girls were not covered. So that was the first thing they brought against me was about those women and I said, “The covering should be on our [men’s] eyes, not on the women.” This made him mad. He said, “You are very crafty if you are saying this to me. What have you told others? You are trying to make yourself holy saying our eyes have to be cleaned.”

So I shared my testimony with the judge about how I was a drug addict and how Jesus has saved me. Since I was freed from my drug addiction I told him from that day on every time I see a drug addict, I share the gospel so they can be free from drugs. I told him, “And this works, I am free from drugs and you can ask them they have been freed from drugs too.”

They were trying to connect me to a [house church] network and I explained to them that I got saved through satellite television and I am doing this because I am so thankful to God because he saved me from addiction that is why I am sharing with others; I am not part of a network. So the judge looked at the case and saw that we were not doing political things, we are just using Christ’s name to help addicts, so he saw that this wasn’t a serious thing so he said ok, go.

I felt the Holy Spirit was on me and whatever [the judge] was asking I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking through me. But there was another person who was arrested that came after me. That person was zealous but the Holy Spirit was not speaking through him so he did not have the wisdom but he had just the zeal. He was not wise he started saying boldly we are Christians this is what we do and you cannot stop us, challenging the judge. So we were about to be released but because of what that person did, the judge said to take them to jail and do more interrogation of them.

I have three kids and I am committed to serving my family 100 percent. But when I knew God is calling me to a mission and I give my family to God and I accept this mission. God knows that I have nothing negative in my heart towards this young Christian that caused us trouble. All I knew is that I believed at that moment that God is sending me for a mission. For ten days they interrogated us. Morning until night they would ask us questions. With our eyes covered and they would bring us back with our eyes covered. For ten days from morning until night.

Interviewer:  What kinds of things would they ask you during these 10 days of questioning?

As an example they asked me, “Are you a Christian?” and I said, “Well my ID card says I am a Muslim but I have encountered Jesus and he has changed my life.” “What do you think about the Quran? What kind of book is it?” they asked me. This is the first book for Muslims. They asked me who is Mohammad—Mohammad is a prophet for Muslims. They ask us many, many questions but their main purpose is to find anything to connect us to Israel or to America or to prove that we are supported financially from outside, that we are a part of a network; that was their purpose for questioning.

So they were trying to connect us to another network so they could arrest the rest but we were telling them we got things from the internet. When they asked us where did you get this CD, we said internet, where did you get this, we’d say we got it from the internet. We said all these things we have you can find it on the internet.

And we were telling them this faith works, we are free from drug addiction, if you try it in your own house it will work. We told our interrogators, “If you try Jesus tonight, your life will be changed.”

Come back next week as we wrap up Mohammed's amazing testimony.