Anna1111 wrote:
If this was happening at Churches in your city?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/30 ... -in-kenya/What admirable Christians these are, who take the risk of Martyrdom - for themselves and their children - every time they attend Church.
It would not be easy going to any church knowing there was a very real posibility that your risk was very real as in someone could get killed.
I hope we are never placed in this position, I do however know several missionaries who are in situations like this and worse, one missionary I know can only meet with two or three at the most because if they are caught they will be literally stoned to death, both the missionary and those he meets with to share the gospel, (he is in a very strick muslim country) some of the places he has to meet are not places you would in any way think of meeting for church.
There are a lot of places in the world where if you are caught trying to spread the gospel of Christ you really risk dying, and in my opinion there will be more places like that the nearer the time of the return of Christ, just my opinion of the matter,
Anyway, I'd like to say yes I would still attend because the greatest witness anyone has for Christ is to continue as they were in their faith before things became difficult or life threatening.
People say they watch the lives of Christians when things are going along normally with really no hard or dangerous difficulties exist but really they don't they just make statements of what they "think" about how a "christian" should act or do based on their on assumptions.
When people especially lost people really watch someone who claims to be a Christian is when there are real trials in their lives, when things are very, very difficult, hard, and or dangerous, (I know thats kind of redundant) but seriously you can have a very big impact for both your lost family members and neighbors, when they really "see" you continuing to do as you were doing before the difficult or dangerous situations came, you also tell your children that you fear God more than man, and that you are trusting your life more to the will of God than the will of man.
Just because someone tries to kill someone else does not guarantee they will in fact die, especially if it is not their appointed time to die, and I really believe no one ever dies without it being their appointed time to die. I also believe that if it is your appointed time to die it is very unlikely you will be able to stay alive.
Anyway, like I said as diffficult as this situation would be I'd like to say that I would continue to attend the church or churches I'd attended previously even knowing the danger, however, seeing someone killed right beside of me or one of my kids would make that not an easy task.
Even knowing that God is fully in control, it is unnerving the things that God allows just so we can see our own depravity without him.