• If Jesus Is Like You

  Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on May 4, 2012 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Anglican

IF JESUS IS LIKE YOU

Richard Wurmbrand was a particular hero of mine, who died a couple of years ago. Wurmbrand was a Christian Lutheran minister who was put in prison for his faith in Romania by the Communist authorities for his faith.

While Wurmbrand was in prison, he shared a cell with a young Communist lad, who wanted to have nothing to do with Christianity. Rations were very low in the prison, and yet Wurmbrand used to share his bread with that young atheist.

One day Wurmbrand was telling the young man about a Christian of whom it was said that he was like Jesus. The young man turned around to Wurmbrand and said, "If Jesus is like you, I would like to know him."

What a witness for Christ.

(From the book "In God's Underground" by Richard Wurmbrand)