God does not merely save from hell, God saves from sin as well. We may put this another way. An obedient walk is not a cause of salvation, it is an effect of God’s working in the soul. The cause of our salvation is God’s mercy, God’s grace. One result of our salvation – or, one part of our salvation – is our beginning to walk as God wants us to walk. We do not take our steps perfectly. We fail in some instances and in some circumstances. Far too many! But, if we are truly believers, our lives are characteristically right.
Tom Wells

Persecution

Persecution

PERSECUTION

RELIGIOUS JOURNALS From WORLD, quoted in CALVARY CONTENDER, 3/15/90, “A Feb. 2 Mexico City prayer meeting of some 160 evangelicals was attacked by a frenzied mob of about 10,000 Catholics using stones and machetes and shouting, `Kill them!’ and `This is a Catholic town.’ The 2/90 CHARISMA reported more persecution and the stoning deaths of two evangelists by over 100 Catholics. Someone said, `The trouble with North Americans and your relationship with the Roman Catholic Church is, you don’t know what the church is like when it is in control.'”