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This is a great book, and the title is right on — A Practical Guide to help anyone, but especially the Next Generation, Navigate today's world. I like the quote that begins the last chapter: "The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended; it simply needs to be let out of its cage."

“One man responded this way: ‘Do you mean that people in your country know that we believe in Jesus? Do you mean that they know that some of us are suffering for our faith? Do you mean that they haven’t forgotten us and that they pray for us?’ I assured them: ‘Why yes, we have always loved you. And we have never forgotten you. For a long time, we have prayed for you.’”

“When I offered the sad observation “that the Russian church had lost in its first decade of ‘freedom’ what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communism for most of the century,” I think that many of the college students made an immediate personal application.”

“Don’t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution! That is our witness to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ!”

“The stronger the persecution, the more significant the spiritual vitality of the believers.”

“How is it, I wondered, that so many people are willing to die for financial or humanitarian reasons while many Christian groups insist on waiting until it is safe to obey Jesus’ command to ‘Go’ into all the world?”