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Open Doors: But you always emphasized the spiritual aspect of this "war."
Andrew: Absolutely. But it is not just general prayer, "Lord, send missions to the Muslim World." We need to develop a plan of action to first get through to the church. That is what God told me 50 years ago and that has not changed. We must go to the church and encourage them, supply them, ask what they need -- not what we prescribe, what they need.
Open Doors: What are believers asking for in the Muslim World?
Andrew: They don't just ask for Bibles. They ask for fellowship, for understanding. We're for Jesus and we seek our brethren. That has not changed and the need for that is more urgent now than ever before.
Open Doors: Does the church in the Muslim World feel forgotten by Christians in the West?
Andrew: Very much. We don't want to go where it costs so much. We're easygoing, fun-loving Christians, and we don't like the smell of the gunpowder. We'd rather go to a nice convention and hear famous speakers and listen to famous singers and be entertained, but that is not the Christian life.
Open Doors: How do you pray for the persecuted Christians?
Andrew: First, by identifying myself with the Persecuted Church. I want to be part of that; I want to feel their pain and feel their joy. The thing we have forgotten is that there is terrible pain -- the poverty and the discrimination and all the fathers in prison and the people blown up in churches. It happens in all these countries -- China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, India, and Pakistan -- and practically all the other countries from Indonesia to Morocco. I identify with them so the Lord can search me to pray for specific needs that come to my desk every day. Sometimes I cry, sometimes I don't know how to pray. But I'm always saying, "Lord, I'm willing to go there."
** Through his enduring work, including founding Open Doors International, Brother Andrew has long been committed to helping raise awareness of this terrible epidemic. For more information on Open Doors, visit www.opendoorsusa.org or call: 1800 5-BIBLE-5.
