{"id":20597,"date":"2001-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2001\/07\/01\/from-editor-41\/"},"modified":"2001-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"from-editor-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/from-editor-41\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was too late to get out. I was wedged into the back seat and miles from anywhere when I learned that the driver, our host, had received death threats as recently as a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I was in Jordan with a two-fold agenda: to visit biblical sites, and to meet Christians living in an Islamic culture. That&#8217;s how I met Esam, an enthusiastic man in his fifties who eagerly shares his faith despite the pressures of his culture.<\/p>\n<p>He was driving five of us journalists to the camp he operates on three acres in the hills overlooking the Zarqa River. That&#8217;s the river, known in the Bible as the Jabbock, where Jacob wrestled with a mysterious foe and refused to quit until his opponent blessed him (Gen. 32). Jacob eventually got his blessing&mdash;and along with it a dislocated hip.<\/p>\n<p>Today this is where Esam seeks to be a blessing through the camping ministry&mdash;where each summer more than 500 children will enjoy games, songs, an obstacle course, and learn about Jesus. In addition, Esam heads up a ministry to Palestinian and Iraqi refugees, offering clothing and food. He also visits inmates in local jails, providing care packages of toiletries and reading material, including a Bible.<\/p>\n<p>With each gift, Esam says, &#8220;I&#8217;m giving this to you because Jesus loves you and so do I.&#8221; Esam says he&#8217;s blessed by being able to serve. But like Jacob, the blessing is accompanied by severe discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>While the government has not stopped Esam&#8217;s efforts, his public testimony has provoked a violent reaction from others. Three years ago, one of the camp buildings was firebombed. No one was hurt, but the damage is still visible. Two years ago, an arsonist caused $30,000 worth of damage to Esam&#8217;s small Christian bookstore in Amman. And then the threats got personal&mdash;phone calls day and night telling him he would be killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I cannot stop serving the Lord Jesus,&#8221; he says simply. &#8220;He is my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked if he still gets the threatening calls. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said with a smile. &#8220;I got caller ID and no longer answer unknown callers.&#8221; He also goes home by a different route each night. That was etched in my mind a few days later when our group met with a senior Jordanian government official.<\/p>\n<p>I knew from U.S. State Department documents that &#8220;the Government of Jordan does not interfere with public worship by the country&#8217;s Christian minority. However, although the majority of Christians are allowed to practice freely, some activities, such as proselytizing or encouraging conversion to the Christian faith&mdash;both considered legally incompatible with Islam&mdash;are prohibited. It is illegal for a Muslim to convert to Christianity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We asked the government minister if the people of his nation would ever be free to change their religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are free to convert,&#8221; the diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s illegal for a Muslim to become a Christian,&#8221; one of the journalists objected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are free to convert, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there aren&#8217;t consequences,&#8221; he said evenly. &#8220;If you want to convert to a new faith, and it&#8217;s that important to you, shouldn&#8217;t you be willing to suffer and even to die for that faith?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The logic was breathtaking. I&#8217;d just never heard anyone put it quite so directly. Freedom&mdash;to die.<\/p>\n<p>I came home haunted by the &#8220;freedom&#8221; in that country&mdash;and Jordan is perhaps the most moderate and westernized, Islamic nation. (To be fair, I must also point out that the ban on conversions is also the law in Israel.)<\/p>\n<p>I was moved to pray for the Christians and all the yet-to-be Christians in Islamic countries and in Israel. Then I marveled at the utter absence of that kind of barrier to evangelism where I live.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly impediments to the gospel exist here, but my cramped ride in the back of Esam&#8217;s Honda put them in a whole different light.<\/p>\n<p>The freedom to follow Jesus without death threats. What a gift. 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