{"id":621,"date":"2008-05-29T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=621"},"modified":"2008-05-29T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:28:01","slug":"is-faith-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/is-faith-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Faith Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assistnews.net\/Stories\/2008\/s08050157.htm\">New Christians Face Ultimatum<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>A Christian family in Jharkhand, India, is facing an ultimatum from the people of their village. On May 25, Boykin Raj and his family were told to either leave Christ or leave their village.<\/p>\n<p>Boykin and his family, which includes his parents and sister, are part of a church where Gospel for Asia missionary Kijor Bune ministers. They are the only Christians in their community and just recently chose to follow Jesus. But things have not been easy for them since their decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Since the time they came to faith, they have been threatened constantly by their relatives as well as the villagers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d GFA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s field correspondent wrote.<\/p>\n<p>When the villagers gathered together on May 25 to decide what to do with the Christians, Boykin and his family chose to trust the Lord, whatever the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Boykin and his family resolutely told them that they would not leave their Christian faith,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the correspondent wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and they were ready to pay any price.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>They ask for prayer for the family, as the police have refused to protect them in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153religious matter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Christians Face Ultimatum A Christian family in Jharkhand, India, is facing an ultimatum from the people of their village. On May 25, Boykin Raj and his family were told to either leave Christ or leave their village. Boykin and his family, which includes his parents and sister, are part of a church where Gospel &#8230; <a title=\"Is Faith Worth It?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/is-faith-worth-it\/\" aria-label=\"More on Is Faith Worth It?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-endangered-christians","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}