Taking Our Freedom For Granted

Christians in China continue to suffer persecution and arrest simply because they are Christians.

The Christian Post reports,

Police recently arrested four American Christian leaders and dozens of Chinese house church leaders during a fellowship gathering in a northwest province in China. The Americans had arrived at Akesu airport in Akesu city, Xinjiang province, on Apr. 17 and started meeting with house church leaders in the region for fellowship on Apr. 18 at a local church family house, reported China Aid Association’s sources on Tuesday. However, just two days after their arrival, on Apr. 19, China’s Public Security Bureau (PSB) reportedly arrested about 30 Chinese house church leaders who met with the American Christians and detained the Americans. At the time of the CAA report Tuesday, the four Americans were still behind held in an undisclosed hotel for questioning along with their translator Mr. Jinhong Li from Beijing. China’s PSB officials confiscated the Americans’ luggage from the local church family they were staying with on Monday.

So, while many Christians in America take for granted the Church, ignore it, have nothing to do with it, Chinese Christians continue to suffer for it and endure hardship for it. It sort of makes American Christianity seem kind of lame, doesn’t it? Perhaps one day the Church will matter as much to American Christians as it does to so many others. But by then it will probably be too late.