Consider What Is Transpiring Before Our Eyes

In 1989, before I was a Christian, I stood where Christians had been slaughtered during the Spanish Inquisition, in a torture chamber, down some back alley in Toledo, Spain.  There I considered the commitment of those faithful Christians who stood firm for their faith amidst the horrors of the Roman Catholic slaughtering machine against all who faithfully trusted in Christ alone for salvation.  Those who were smashed and ripped to pieces trusted in Christ and His Word, not Rome and its errors.  

Years later in 2004, at St. Andrews, Scotland, I stood as a Christian on the bronze initials [[PH] and [GW] placed in the street at St. Andrews Castle, where Patrick Hamilton and George Wishart were burned alive because they both remained loyal to the Christ of Scripture, not Rome.  Hamilton and Wishart resisted betraying Christ when Cardinal Beaton, another slaughtering machine from Rome, threatened them to do so.  What were Hamilton and Wishart's crimes?  Teaching the New Testament Scriptures from the Greek text.  I wept as I thought of the many faithful ones who were burned alive hundreds of years ago.

Near where I used to live on the Edinburgh seaside, I would consider regularly the men who were burned at the stake a short distance from my home.  They too stood faithful against all manner of evil seeking to delude Christians and the world.  They loved Christ more than the world and they paid for it with their lives.  They knew there was a cost for following Jesus, and they were unwilling to love the world more than Christ. 

Today, I sit in amazement at the amount of pastors, ministries, and individual Christians that are more concerned about being popular than being faithful to God and His Word.  The amount of abuses and fall out from churches is utterly staggering, and as time rolls on, more and more are falling prey to spiritual deception. 

The simple facts beg the question, What is more important, being popular, or being faithful to God and His Word?

Our goal with SRN is to proclaim the biblical Gospel and to encourage biblical discernment, and in doing so, remain faithful to Christ and His Word.  This is much more important than being popular and winning the approval of men.

Some resources you may be interested in are A Lamp In The Dark: The Untold History of the Bible,   Wide Is The Gate: The Emerging New Christianity,  Foxes Book of Martyrs and A Cry of Exhortation.