Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them. Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you. (Hebrews 13:3)

As the East Asian Spring Festival has commenced, we remember in prayer Wáng Yí, 王怡, a legal scholar and founding pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church. He continues in prison (arrested in 2018) for his advocating for church-state separation and for his challenging China’s state church.
Yí’s “Declaration of Faithful Disobedience” is wisdom for American Christians who want to stay faithful to Jesus, love our country and our neighbors, but without being seduced by religious nationalism, that makes a religious idol out of the secular authority.
Wáng Yí, in a time-honored tradition of Chinese intellectuals, speaks as the “conscience of his nation.”

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21)