Killing Christians: Living Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
Tom Doyle, a DTS grad and Dallas resident, recently published Killing Christians. When I saw my physician for annual check-up, she was reading it on her phone and raved about it. Here's a quick review from Dan Wooding, whom I met on a press junket to Israel in 2009. He is the founder of the ASSIST News Service.Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe (Book Review)NASHVILLE, TN. (ANS – September 6, 2015) - Forty Egyptian churches burned to the ground. House church leaders sentenced to Iran's infamous Evin prison. Eighty Christians murdered in North Korea for merely owning a Bible. Believers nailed to crosses in Syria. And that was the news for just one month in 2014. The terror has continued into 2015 to unimaginable heights.Widespread persecution can't stop the faithful who spread Jesus' love in the face of grave danger. Check out the news, and note the places where war, poverty, racism, seething religious violence, and killing seem to own the day. Right in the middle of it all, Jesus' church is thriving.In Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe (W Publishing Group), Middle East director for e3 Partners Tom Doyle (with the help of Greg Webster), shares the personal stories of persecuted Christians, many of whom pay the ultimate price for their faith. From secret meetings to torture rooms, Doyle brings readers eight unique stories from the front lines with never-before-heard testimony of those Christians being targeted.“There is remarkable freedom in having no expectations, no plans for tomorrow,” says Farid Assad of Syria. “The question I and many others start every day with is this: ‘Jesus, what do You have planned for me and my family?’ Only today matters. Only how I live for Jesus counts. Everything else is superficial. When I hand over my life to my Lord, knowing each day may be my last one on this earth, I am more at peace than ever before.”Tom Doyle pastored churches in Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico for twenty years before becoming a missionary in the Middle East. His passion for Israel was fed through guiding tours there, eventually becoming a tour guide for the State of Israel. Tom also serves as the Middle East director of e3 Partners (http://e3partners.org), a global church planting ministry. He is the author of three books, Breakthrough, Two Nations Under God, and Dreams and Visions. He and his wife, JoAnn, have six children and two grandchildren.