“...one of the most accurate ways to detect and measure the activity of God is to note the amount of opposition that is present.”

“It is crucial to understand that God values our help. But it is more crucial to remember that our all-powerful God is able to work with our without us, that our all-knowing God is not blind to the evil in His world, and that our ever-present God is there...whether we are or not.”

“Personal trust and spiritual maturity were often in direct proportion to the amount of suffering that had been offered for the faith.”

“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most of a century.”

“He said, "Son, when did you stop reading your Bible? All of our stories are in the Bible. God has already written them down. Why would we bother writing books to tell our stories when God has already told His story. If you would just read the Bible, you would see that our stories are there.”

“Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us.”

“...our pilgrimage among house churches in persecution convinced us that God may actually want to use them to save us from the often debilitating, and sometimes spiritually-fatal, effects of our watered down, powerless western faith.”