Who is the Persecuted Church?
They are our brothers and sisters, our mothers and our fathers, in a truer sense than those of our own flesh and blood or of our own nationality. In Mark 3:31-35, Jesus was in his home teaching and we read:And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”Jesus considered those who do the will of God to be his brothers and sisters in a truer sense than his flesh and blood brothers who did not believe in him. A woman in the room who believed in Jesus was more his mother than Mary was, if she was not believing in him at the time. A believing Gentile was more Jesus’ brother than his own Jewish countryman who did
