IN DANGER FOR BELIEVING (a poem)
Dinner is served since we’re all there
Stopper pulled from a wine decanter
Pause for routine pre-meal prayer
Return to mundane table banter.
No one speaks of persecution
Grave human rights issue of our time
It seems there’s no sound solution
To this grave international crime.
We in the west know so little
Of global Christians’ desperation
Their lives fragile and so brittle
Feeling we’ve left them in isolation.
Charged with blasphemy and libel
Daringly claiming Christ’s gift frees us.
All they did was read the Bible
Prisoners now for trusting Jesus.
© Ron Unruh, October 27, 2019
Backstory: On November 2 2019, on the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, Christian believers in 130 countries of the world will praying for people who because of their faith are living in high-risk conditions.
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