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Jordan's Eviction Notice

Country hailed for tolerance deports at least 27 Christians.

Nate Sabarese | posted 4/08/2008 08:51AM

Following a rash of deportations and denied residency permits, evangelicals in Jordan report that freedom to practice their faith is increasingly entangled with national security issues.

Jordan, long hailed ...

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Allister

Posted: April 12, 2008 1:54 PM

Poaching from the 'old churches'? Having lived in the Middle East for many years, I have to say that with out the evangelical movements many of the 'old Christian' churches would have died a long time ago for lack of bible teaching. Many nominal Christians in Jordan know more Koranic verses than Bible verses. Thank God for the Bible society and evangelical churches who have established themselves in Jordan over the last hundred years! There would be less Christians in the Middle East today without their important influence.

David

Posted: April 09, 2008 9:07 AM


I agree with Ella. Show Christ's love and we will be a picture of who Christ was. If we hold onto what we perceive as a wrong, we create division between us and those we would hope to reach out to.

Kingsley

Posted: April 09, 2008 8:01 AM


Poaching Catholic and Orthodox Christians from the fullness of faith is decimating the Christian presence in the middle east and is a sad day for the whole world.

Ella	Posted: April 09, 2008 3:19 AM

Excellent Post by Sabarese. I especially agree with the suggestions at the end that we should respond with love rather than outrage in the face of the deportations. This is exactly what Christ tells us to do in the bible. It is not about loving our neighbors as they have loved us, but loving our neighbors as if they were ourselves. It confuses people in a good way! Our standard as disciples of Christ should be more like Elisabeth Elliot and the other widows of the martyred missionaries who responded in love and continued minstering to the once violent Auca Indians in Ecuador even after they killed their husbands. How great the love of Christ that flowed through their hearts, but what a great reward in heaven awaits those who respond with that kind of love? And what a great reward here on earth as the Auca Indians, confused and curious by the display of that kind of love, came to know the love of Christ through the sacrifice and love of such women!

Matt	Posted: April 08, 2008 7:13 PM


Oh the Mohommedans are at it again...

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