Coram Deo

Persecuted believers today might similarly seek legal and political protection, where the authorities overlook mob violence and personal attacks for religious reasons or are justified for various reasons. Like Paul, they may also seek to obtain proper exposure to the issues involved in opposition to their pattern of life and testimony to Jesus. But Christians have nothing to fear from systems that seek justice, for ‘if a Christian has integrity, then the state has nothing to fear from the believer, and the believer can make the case that nothing that has been done is designed to undercut that state’s right to both exist and create a society of law, order, and peace’. Whatever the difficulties experienced, it may be suggested that Christians everywhere are bound to seek a public hearing for the gospel in whatever ways are possible in their situation.