Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe, by Tom Doyle
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Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe, by Tom Doyle
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Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family’s lives?
To many Christians in the Middle East today, a “momentary, light affliction” means enduring only torture instead of martyrdom. The depth of oppression Jesus followers suffer is unimaginable to most Western Christians. Yet, it is an everyday reality for those who choose faith over survival in Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, and other countries hostile to the Gospel of Christ. In Killing Christians, Tom Doyle takes readers to the secret meetings, the torture rooms, the grim prisons, and even the executions that are the “calling” of countless Muslims-turned-Christians.
Each survivor longs to share with brothers and sisters “on the outside” what Christ has taught them. Killing Christians is their message to readers who still enjoy freedom to practice their faith. None would wish their pain and suffering on those who do not have to brave such misery, but the richness gained through their remarkable trials are delivered—often in their own words—through this book. The stories are breathtaking, the lessons soul-stirring and renewing. Killing Christians presents the dead serious work of expanding and maintaining the Faith.
“When you’re looking for real-life accounts of 21st Century believers whose lives are literally at stake for their beliefs, it demands the credibility of a man who has the smell of the front lines of the battlefield on his clothes because he was there yesterday and will be back there tomorrow. I’m proud to say my friend Tom Doyle is that man.”
—Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist & Biographer
Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe, by Tom Doyle- Amazon Sales Rank: #28562 in Books
- Brand: Doyle, Tom/ Webster, Greg (CON)
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.39" h x .63" w x 5.47" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 210 pages
About the Author
Tom Doyle, Vice President and Middle East-Central Asia Director for e3 Partners based in Dallas, Texas, and author of four books including Dreams & Visions and Killing Christians. Visit website: http://e3partners.org.
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful. In the land of the Bible, harsh persecution of Christians By Paul Mastin When I grumble about getting up on Sunday and getting my family to church, I need to think about my brothers and sisters in the Middle East for whom simply having a Bible study at home is a death sentence. When I complain about government policies or social norms in the US that are biased against Christians, I need to remember my brothers and sisters who are given the choice of converting to Islam or being killed. In Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe, Tom Doyle reminds us that even though being a Christian in the West is quite comfortable, the church is suffering persecution. Our family is under attack.I read the stories in Killing Christians like a family album. I've never met these family members, but I feel like I know them now. I grieve with them in their suffering, but more than that, I am amazed and inspired by their joy and perseverance in the face of persecution. Doyle writes the stories in the style of fiction, and he acknowledges that some of the conversations have been reconstructed and some descriptions have been modified, but these are real people in real places facing real persecution and martyrdom. I personally like his decision to write in this style. Historians may object, but I'm reading a family account here, not a history text.Doyle focuses on the region in which he works, North Africa and the Middle East, so the persecution faced in Killing Christians comes from Muslims. I know there are peaceful Muslims in parts of the world, and there are plenty of places where Christians and Muslims live in harmony. These are not those Muslims, and these are not those places. Christians here face murder, rape, disfigurement, beatings, and other forms of torture and abuse at the hands not only of strangers, but, in some cases, neighbors, friends, and even family members. It's shocking, but true, that some Muslims would kill their own spouse or child as retribution for their becoming a Christian.Besides the stories of Christians being beaten or killed, there are also stories of miraculous salvation, where Jesus physically intervenes to stop an attack. Almost every story involves Jesus appearing to Muslims in dreams, with very personal reassurances of their safety, promises for provision, or an invitation to follow him. These are the kinds of things we read about in the Bible. I've never experienced anything like it, and am so encouraged that people in these lands are experiencing Jesus in this way.Doyle does not call for Western Christians to send financial support, to go on mission trips, or to feel sorry for our brothers and sisters in these countries. On the contrary, these believers pray for us. They have much to teach us about living faithfully for Jesus. Like Peter and John, "they have been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name." Doyle tells the stories of these believers who joyfully embrace martyrdom as a chance to be in the arms of Jesus, and asks his readers, "Are you willing to suffer for Jesus? Are you willing to die for Jesus?" I am humbled and inspired by these believers who answer without hesitation, "Yes! and Yes!"Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. "Living the faith where it's not safe to believe..." By Gail Welborn Tom Doyle, author, missionary and Middle East director of "e3 Partners" asks if you "could retain your faith even if it meant losing your life" in his March release, Killing Christians. America is unfamiliar with Christian persecution on this scale or a social climate that prompts such a question. However Muslims in Africa, Iraq, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries know the cost to themselves and their loved ones when they say "yes" to these questions. "Are you willing to suffer for Jesus?" "Are you willing to die for Jesus?"They know if their underground churches are exposed, if loved ones turn them in or they are caught witnessing they face sadistic torture, profound suffering and death. Persecution and torture are so common Muslim converts define it as "momentary light affliction” because "they choose faith over survival."The survivors you read about in these true stories have "endured the unendurable" and live lives "worthy of recognition and respect" in spite of terrifying circumstances. Stories end with an update and a "message" from survivors. The narratives are real. Locations and names have been modified or changed.For example, Azzam Azziz Mubarak had "seven visions about the man who called himself Jesus." He didn’t know him, yet recognized his voice. When he talked to his mother she told him to "Leave and don't come back." Azzam's journey began "in a coffin under a corpse."Farid Assid lived in Damascus and dreamed of a white-robed man who said to "Follow Me." He was supernaturally led to ten others with similar visions and they gathered secretly to learn about Jesus, read Scripture and worship. They were prompted to purchase a burial ground for themselves that remains “empty” due to strange, coincidental events.Tassie's (Tasyir Awad) story began as a young boy when a soldier he called “American Joe” prayed for him. He didn't understand, but never forgot and years later accepted Christ. His Muslim family considered him an infidel when he said "Jesus paid him a visit. Now he wonders if today is the day his family will finally kill him."Professor Rafia Abbar was "department chair of Islamic Studies for Women" and taught Sharia law until a woman witnessed to her about Christ. Her ten-year-old daughter watched as her grandpa's brothers held knives to her mother's throat while they recited Sura's over her. However they suddenly turned and ran from the room. Her daughter ran to her and said, "Jesus was there, Mommy. He wouldn't' let them touch you."Doyle assures readers these and other touching stories aren't told to gain sympathy. Survivors want to share their stories with other Christians who still appreciate and enjoy the freedom to practice their faith. The author writes "daily posts and SOS prayer alerts" at FaceBook 8thirty8 for others to pray and "connect personally with brothers and sisters under fire." He believes Christian persecution and martyrdom will increase until the Lord returns.Reading these stories gives added significance to what it means to follow Christ while stories inspire appreciation for our own freedoms and much-needed prayer for the persecuted.'Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe,' by Tom Doyle w/Greg Webster, Thomas Nelson, 2015, 240 Pages, 978-0718030681, $15.99Midwest Book Reviews "Gail's Bookshelf" 3-2015Pinterest: GailWelbornTwitter: @GailWelbornFaceBook: Gail Welborn
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Powerful! By Family Readers Each chapter is a different story in a different place. Each story I was amazed at how our brothers and sisters in these countries are so on fire for Jesus and in turn their stories has encouraged me to be more bold in my own walk here at home. Since I finished the book on Saturday I have talked to everyone I have come across about this book....even my Pastor! He had not heard of the book, obviously, the book just came out last week! :) So this morning as I was driving to work I thought of the people I spoke with and The Lord impressed on me to buy this book for them.....and so I will!!Cannot wait to read Tom Doyle's other book about Dreams and in the meantime I just want to say that I have set up my alarm to go off at 8:38pm every night and last night for the first time I prayed for my brothers and sisters in the Middle East and Somalia. Loved this book!
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