This story relates a very real line that has been crossed. 
I think that we are generally not aware of the laws already on the books that would make it ‘illegal’ to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It’s possibly a scene many have imagined since 1978-ish. Well for me anyway when as a teenager during the late ’70s revival I sat mesmerized by Hal Lindsey and Keith Green
declaring the immanence of Our Lord’s return.
That there will be persecution of Christians is a core belief since ‘John the Revelator‘ wrote the ‘book of the seven seals’.
I really think it’s time to ask ourselves these questions anew:
Would you still be a Christian if every Church got destroyed?
Would you still be a Christian if all copies of Scriptures were burned?
Would you still be a Christian if it meant you could no longer publicly assemble in fellowship to worship?
Would you still be a Christian if the Holy Sacrifice of the mass became a criminal activity and resulted in prison?
Would you still be a Christian if it meant you were deprived of honor and public office?
Would you still be a Christian if it meant you were enslaved or forced to go to jail?
Would you still be a Christian if execution through out the body started?
(Execution meaning: being tormented, strangled, scourged, decapitated, burned alive, yes, MARTYRED!)
Would you still be a Christian if this “great persecution” lasted for 10 years?
Well, as we approach the final days of our liturgical year (the Feast of Christ the King is November 20th) and the readings progress to illuminate the ‘Last things: death, judgment, heaven or hell’, we maybe entering into a time when the daily readings, which we have been pondering and studying for centuries, once again parallel the headlines we read in the main stream media.
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Personal note: It’s harvest time in the Napa Valley and most mornings you can actually experience the blessing of smelling the ‘crushed’ grapes in the air. Something that I pray at least once in your life you have the opportunity to experience. As a family, we have been laboring hard for almost 5 months, fasting from the comforts of a ‘house’ and re-affirming our life-long commitment to remain faithful ‘pilgrims’ who know where lies our true home. We have been blessed to see how our Lord has used us to bring people back to family prayer, back to church, and back to ‘trusting completely’ in God’s providence. He truly is able to use any of us as a powerful, personal, generous vessel of blessing in the lives of those to whom He sends us each day. His work, His pilgrimage, as always, begins inside each of us as individuals who need healing, restoration, vision, and grace and direction. He has led us to each other as married couple and as a family.
Our “Harvest Time” is here.
We have been seeing the answer to prayer intentions for people in our lives come through in ways we could have only imagined. As we are a family for others, we have been given the privilege to serve Him by serving others. He has blessed the work of our hearts. He gets all the glory! It is the most wonderful thing to see lives transformed by the pure love poured out as Mercy.
Now Our Lord is leading us into another time of work/ministry. We will be continuing to make our way toward the fulfillment of the first phase of the “New Life Family Mission” in an event to be held on October 2nd (7 pm) at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco (Geary Street) where our new friends Jason Jones (producer of Bella) and Steve McEveety (producer of Braveheart and the Passion of the Christ) will share with us the vision they have for a new movement in the world of Hollywood movies.
And we will share the vision we have. Here is a hint:
As always, write if the Spirit moves you
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