In the last MERF newsletter (www.merf.org) there are 7 stories of people who suffer to hear the Word of God in Iran. A family taking a 48 hour hazardous bus ride, a tortured young man,an eager young woman, an impassioned father and daughter, a former addict, a young couple that will need to meet with the police when they return, a daughter who has lost her preacher father.
Quoting from the newsletter; Each in turn seems to have a story that marks these ordinary believers as anything but ordinary. They have come together - often with some difficulty and never without risk- not because of the pull of some well-known speaker, but because they delight in Christ. Just to sing His praise together thrills them. How seldom do they get to unite their voices with others, rejoicing in the one they adore! What joy from praying with one another and sharing together around the throne of grace! For some, this is the only time they are able to experience the fellowship of the saints before returning to a land which is even yet a "dry and weary land where there is no water". They thirst for fellowship, and the Lord has providentially provided at intervals this oasis for his people through MERF.
Ours is a rain drenched country, with countless lakes and rivers, extensive aquifers.
Ours is a freedom drenched country with countless churches, study groups, programs on the radio, television and internet.
Do we thirst?
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