Title: Men who have risked their lives
These men did not put their lives on the line so we would have it easy with our Christianity today. But that is what is happening: the church is preaching a politically correct message of blessing upon blessing, neglecting to open the door to the possibility of suffering for the gospel.
If there is a time in the history of salvation, when persecution will be upon the church, it is in the years prior to the return of the Lord Jesus, and that is where we find ourselves now. The conflict may not seem obvious to the untrained eye because we are trying to avoid a direct confrontation with the world by conforming to its standards, which should not be the case.
We must learn from the example of those who have walked ahead of us on the old beaten path leading from the foot of
