Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
Week 6: Chapter 5 — Winning the Communists to Christ
Read Chapter 5 of Tortured for Christ. Key passages: Matthew 5:43–48; Romans 5:8–10.
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This chapter may be the most astonishing in the book — because it records not only the suffering of believers at the hands of Communists, but the extraordinary, irrational love that those believers poured back onto their persecutors.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Wurmbrand opens this chapter with a conviction that seems almost incomprehensible: that one of the primary missions of Christians in Communist countries was to evangelize Communists — including prison guards, secret police, and party officials. Where do you think this conviction came from, and how do you evaluate it?
2.He recounts several specific stories of guards and interrogators who were converted through the witness of the Christian prisoners they were supposed to be breaking. What patterns do you notice in these conversions? What was it about the prisoners' behavior that seemed to reach their captors?
a.Wurmbrand suggests that love — not argument — was the primary instrument of conversion in these settings. Do you agree? What does that say about evangelism in your own context?
b.Is there someone in your life toward whom you have found it difficult to extend love because of what they have done? How does this chapter speak to that situation?
3.Wurmbrand describes a Communist official who had personally signed the death warrants of Christians who later, in his own private crisis, was visited and cared for by a Christian. How do you understand the spiritual mechanics of such an encounter — what makes love toward an enemy so potentially powerful?
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