Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
Week 7: Chapter 6 — Have You Heard Their Cries?
Read Chapter 6 of Tortured for Christ. Key passages: Hebrews 13:3; James 2:14–17.
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Having taken us inside the suffering church, Wurmbrand now turns to face the West directly — and the question he puts to comfortable Christianity is as urgent today as it was when he first asked it.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Wurmbrand's appeal to Western Christians in this chapter is essentially: you have heard, now you are responsible. How do you respond to that logic? Does knowledge of suffering create obligation? If so, what kind?
2.He describes the loneliness of the persecuted church — how believers in Communist countries felt forgotten and abandoned by their brothers and sisters in the free world. How does Hebrews 13:3 — "Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them" — become a concrete command rather than a poetic sentiment in light of what Wurmbrand describes?
3.Wurmbrand challenges Western Christianity specifically for what he sees as its materialism, its entertainment-driven worship, and its substitution of social programs for genuine spiritual transformation. Is this critique fair? Where do you see it hitting home in your own experience of church?
a.Is Wurmbrand's critique of Western Christianity itself an act of love, or does it risk being unfair to genuine faith expressed in different cultural forms? How do you weigh it?
b.What would Wurmbrand say is the difference between a church that is merely comfortable and a church that is genuinely healthy?
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