A friend who is a pastor in the underground church told me, “We have a saying in the Middle East that you don’t know someone until you’ve gone on a trip with them and you’ve eaten with them. It’s so true. The camaraderie. You don’t see that in the West. When, for example, COVID-19 hit the Middle East, me and the leaders all hunkered down in one house. The twenty of us with kids. You really bond when that happens.” He continued, “True discipleship doesn’t happen out there; it happens in a home. True discipleship isn’t something you do once a week. It’s what you do every day because that’s when
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