The Very Human Tragedy of Persecution

[Garland-Green]

Eric Metaxas, Stan Guthrie

One of the greatest persecutors of Christians of all time, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, was purported to have said the following: “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

Stalin would have known. Millions of Christians perished during his dictatorship. But the saying was spot on.

Like an old vinyl LP with a scratch on it, we keep hearing the horrible statistics over and over about Christian persecution worldwide—statistics that can numb us to the individual tragedies.

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[SolaceSerenitySerendipity]

Here in the US, where I am, we are so lucky that there is no real persecution.... other places are not so blessed. May the LORD protect his people and may His people cling to their LORD.