So how do we live, love, pray, work and follow Jesus Christ under the shadow of governments that deny citizens basic freedoms, manufacture idolatries and injustice, and act with impunity in their crimes against humanity? The answer is that faith is our defiance, and defiance is contagious. What is more, this is a faith working through love, faith in action, faith in a power higher than the powers who do evil. It is faith in a God who will bring the wicked to judgement and smash the thrones of evildoers. As to what this looks like in action, the Church and those who commit themselves to walk in
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