Indian Christian leaders have urged the government to ensure justice and protection for Christians following at least 23 reported incidents of anti-Christian violence in the last two months. This includes an attack where a mob of 50 Hindus surrounded a church and beat two Christian women with wooden clubs and sticks, leaving them seriously injured and unconscious. The document discusses Paul's experience of persecution including being beaten, pelted with stones, and shipwrecked, but finding strength and hope through Christ who gives victory.

1. ‘Struck down but
unconquered’
Study passage
2 Corinthians
Suffering Church action week

2. We do not want you to be
uninformed, brothers, about the
hardships we suffered in the
province of Asia. We were under
great pressure, far beyond our
ability to endure, so that we
despaired even of life
Apostle Paul’s experience of
pressure

3. We are hard pressed on every
side
2 Cor 4:8a
Apostle Paul’s experience of
pressure
Besides everything else, I face daily
the pressure of my concern for all
the churches

5. India’s Christian leaders are urging
the country’s governments to
“ensure justice and protection” after
at least 23 incidents of anti-
Christian violence were recorded
in the last two months

6. 2 Christian women, sustained
serious injuries and were left
unconscious when a mob of over
50 Hindu radicals surrounded a
church building in an Indian village
on 8 September, attacking
these women with wooden clubs
and sticks

7. 5x I received … the 40 lashes minus
one 3x I was beaten with rods,
once I was pelted
with stones,
3x I was shipwrecked ….
in danger from
my fellow Jews, in danger from
Gentiles … and in danger from false
Apostle Paul’s experience of
persecution

8. We are hard pressed on every side,
but not crushed; perplexed, but not in
despair; persecuted, but not
abandoned; struck down, but not
destroyed. We always carry around in
our body the death of Jesus, so that
the life of Jesus may also be revealed
in our body
Apostle Paul’s experience of
persecution

9. We pray that they won’t:-
• despair despite persecution
• feel abandoned by God or
us
• be destroyed even when knocked down
• The life of Jesus will be
demonstrated through their
We pray that:-

10. He has delivered us from
such a deadly peril, and He
will deliver us. On Him we
have set our hope that He
will continue to deliver us
2 Cor 1:10
Paul trusts God would continue to
deliver him

11. I will build my church, and the
gates of Hades will not overcome it
Matthew 16:18b
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome
the world
John 16:33

12. But thanks be to God, who gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ
1 Cor 15:57
If you were accused of being a
Christian in a court of law, would
there be enough evidence to
convict you?