When I was going through my mail, after getting home from Israel, I found my most recent VOM magazine from June 2007 and the following line really caught my attention.
"When you see a Christian you don't see a bad thing." - A statement that should be self evident if everyone believed Christians are good and loving people, however, that unfortunately isn't the case.
Dr. Tom White, the Director for The Voice of the Martyrs, wrote a great piece in the VOM June edition of the VOM magazine called "Vietnam - Perfect Love Casts Out Fear". In this article, he tells a story about a police officer who came to faith in Christ because he saw the love of Christians. He testified that he is now an evangelist and that he now tells the police that Christians are not a bad thing. And he goes on to say that "he defends the church."
This sounds a lot like St. Paul after his conversion and my prayer is that all of us who have a steadfast faith in Christ Jesus would pursue the spirit of unity and let the world know that when people see Christians they are indeed seeing a good thing and also a group who will love and defend her own.