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"Our greatest enemy is lostness. Lostness is the terrible enemy that Jesus commissioned His followers to vanquish with the battle strategy that He spelled out for them in Matthew 28:18-20. He was addressing the same enemy when He plainly clarified His purpose in coming: I have come to seek and to save those who are lost."

This was an attitude that I would encounter often in China. Personal trust and respect for spirit maturity were often in direct proportion to the amount of suffering that had been endured for the faith.

"I was captivated by the thought: what if persecution is the normal, expected situation for a believer? And what if the persecution is, in fact, soil in which faith can grow? What if persecution can be, in fact, good soil?"