🧵A story about the worst Chinese food and the best conversation I’ve ever had. Both were in Ethiopia in a restaurant that was once an underground gathering for persecuted Christians who had prayed, sung, learned, and shared together under communist rule. 1/
We gathered there to celebrate the communists had lost power, churches were open again, and GOD had grown the Ethiopian church 30x during communist rule. We sang & danced & listened to testimony after testimony while eating kung-pow-I’m-not-sure-what. 2/
A woman testified: the communists had thrown her in jail for preaching on her college campus. So she preached in jail. To a murderer, a man who trained children to steal, & many others. ALL became Christians! She was thrown out of jail for starting a revival! 3/
She still knows every inmate & discipled them - the owner of a construction company, a man who sings in his church’s choir, a school teacher… “I do not wish this pain for you but if it comes you know now there is much good in it for God!” 4/
When it was too dangerous to carry bibles, they memorized it and “read from our minds.” When gathering in small groups became too dangerous, they met in pairs. When this too became too dangerous “we could not share space, but we shared time.” 5/
They prayed, sang, & recited scripture at the same time on the same day. Separate yet together. Sharing SPACE is God’s ideal for the Christian community. But believers throughout history have often shared TIME instead. God still gives “much good in it.” 6/
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