The Suffering Church - Shaynor Newsome

Revelation 2:8-11: the letter to the church at Smyrna.

"What it does say is that the God we worship is capable of redeeming the deepest agony, the most hideous suffering, the pain beyond words, into something that gives life and brings glory to him. But make no mistake, the transfiguring of agony cost Jesus Christ inestimably. Death does not transform into life easily. Redemption costs, and whenever we encounter it, we can be certain we have stepped into the realm of the supernatural." —Diane Langberg