Throughout the world, in nation after nation, men and women have died for their Christian faith. The very least we can do is live for our faith.
Martyr
Jim Elliot
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Samuel Rutherford
To believe Christ’s cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
John Bradford
Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord this night.
Spoken to his fellow martyr, John Leaf, at the stake, Smithfield. 1555
N T Wright
So the natural inclination of a Jesus-follower, to obey Jesus’ call to go and help at the place of danger, even at the risk of one’s own life, looks rather different when that apparently heroic action might easily make matters worse. The generous one-dimensional desire to be a hero, to ‘do the right thing’, needs to be rounded out with the equally generous willingness to restrain apparent heroism when it might itself bring disaster.
N.T. Wright
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