What does it cost to follow Jesus? For these men and women, the
answer was clear. They were ready to give witness to Christ in the
face of intense persecution, even if it cost them their lives. From
the stoning of Stephen to Nigerian Christians persecuted by Boko
Haram today, these stories from around the world and through the
ages will inspire greater faithfulness to the way of Jesus,
reminding us what costly discipleship looks like in any age. Since
the birth of Christianity, the church has commemorated those who
suffered for their faith in Christ. In the Anabaptist tradition
especially, stories of the boldness and steadfastness of early
Christian and Reformation-era martyrs have been handed down from
one generation to the next through books such as Thieleman van
Braght's Martyrs Mirror (1660). Yet the stories of more recent
Christian witnesses are often unknown. Bearing Witness tells the
stories of early Christian martyrs Stephen, Polycarp, Justin,
Agathonica, Papylus, Carpus, Perpetua, Tharacus, Probus,
Andronicus, and Marcellus, followed by radical reformers Jan Hus,
Michael and Margaretha Sattler, Weynken Claes, William Tyndale,
Jakob and Katharina Hutter, Anna Janz, Dirk Willems. But the bulk
of the book focuses on little-known modern witness including
Veronika Loehans, Jacob Hochstetler, Gnadenhutten, Joseph and
Michael Hofer, Emanuel Swartzendruber, Regina Rosenberg, Eberhard
and Emmy Arnold, Johann Kornelius Martens, Ahn Ei Sook, Jakob
Rempel, Clarence Jordan, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, Tulio
Pedraza, Stanimir Katanic, Samuel Kakesa, Kasai Kapata, Meserete
Kristos Church, Sarah Corson, Alexander Men, Jose Chuquin, Norman
Tattersall, Katherine Wu, and Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria. This
book is part of the Bearing Witness Stories Project, a
collaborative story-gathering project involving Anabaptist
believers from many different traditions.
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