Worship at a congregation in Matanzas

All right, it’s time to get this blog started again. My planned post about Christmas seems a little out of place now, so we’ll move on to another topic. How about a thought question? If you had to choose, would you opt to live in a country where you could practice your religion comfortably or live in a place where the church was growing by leaps and bounds?

Now don’t jump to conclusions, I’m not saying that everyone everywhere has to choose between those two. I was thinking about my friends in Matanzas, Cuba. In a lot of ways, their lives are nothing to envy. Many of them live in poverty. They don’t enjoy many of the freedoms we do. Opportunities for the future are limited. But on any given Sunday, they baptize 4-5 people at church. Over the last few years, the main congregation in the city of Matanzas has started 19 churches and has averaged 200 or so baptisms.

Would it be worth it to you? Would you give up personal comfort, civil rights, etc. for a chance to live in a place where the Kingdom is growing rapidly?