Safely Home

March 11, 2008

I recently finished reading a book that I want to recommend to you. Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn, is a novel about the persecuted church. This book shook me. I have known that Christians in other parts of the world are persecuted for following Jesus but this book brought it home unlike anything I have ever experienced before. I highly recommend that you read this book. Without telling you too much I will tell you that the book chronicles the lives of two men that get reacquainted after twenty years since their graduation from college. One is a believer; one is not. One is pursuing the American dream; one is pursuing God and suffering for it. They come together and the story takes off from there. It is a fascinating look at persecution and its reality.

Here are some of the lessons I took away from the book:

-Persecution is real. Christians really are suffering greatly for the name of Jesus Christ.

-Success in life without Christ is really no success at all.

-The Bible is such a treasure. There are believers in the world that would love to have a copy of even a portion of God’s Word.

-Will persecution come to the American church? I don’t know. But what if it did? How would things change? What if it became illegal to speak openly about Christ? What if churches were required to sign something saying that they would not preach about certain sins? What if they were monitored to make sure that nothing was taught that went against the regulations of the governing authorities? Just something to think about.