Talking through a Pipe Because Place Was Bugged!
Here is a story of Bi-Vocational ministry, out of necessity for the underground church during persecution.
Our western model of church will change. Because it's based on the culture and community liking us. It all changes when they no longer see any value or good in the Kingdom of Christ, are in fact hostile to the scriptures. Properties will not be zone for churches, public facilities will not rent to churches (common now) and Social media and YouTube will not even be on our radar anymore as tools. Then what?
What do we have left in our tool case?
I think the early church already showed us, and Russian communistes made it applicable again for their time. It could easily happen again.
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"There was this guy, František Mikloško, who’s in the book. He was a part of the underground church, the second generation. It turns out he was the personal assistant to the underground bishop, Ján Chryzostom Korec. And František took me to Cardinal Korec’s apartment. John Paul II made Korec a cardinal after the fall of communism. But for many years, he was an elevator repairman and street sweeper, even though the communists knew that he was really a bishop.
František took me to the apartment where Korec had lived and told me about the meetings that he would have there with his flock. He showed me a tube, a sort of plastic tube mounted on a base that allowed it to spin. It was like a PVC pipe, maybe six inches across. And when people come to visit him, they would sit across from Korec at the table and they would speak to each other through the pipe, Korec would speak into the pipe and the listener would have his ear there, because they knew the apartment was bugged.
One day, the secret police came and tried to pull him off the street to arrest him. And the bishop was strong and wouldn’t get into the car with him. And he put his arms out straight against the side of the car. František was just standing there watching this bishop fight the secret police… and he prevailed!"
- Ron Dreher
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