Reminder: Muslim Terrorist Attacks Should Not Discourage Christians From Preaching!
If the Christians of the Dark Ages boldly preached the Gospel even to the cost of death, if Martin Luther was not afraid to nail the 95 Theses on the wall of Wittenburg which started the Reformation and if the Protestant Reformers dared to oppose the Jesuits' Counter-Reformation and the terrorist attacks by Muslim terrorists today are no different. There is no reason to be surprised because Jesus already warned in Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:9 and John 15:21 that true Christians will suffer for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As a Christian, I do not expect my life not to get more complicated but I expect it to get more complicated because Jesus said it.
A daily increase of terrorist attacks today makes me think that Jesus Christ is really coming soon. Even after the Al Qaida was defeated, the ISIS came as a new global Muslim terrorist organization. The Paris attacks made me think that how Islam has been like the Rider of the Red Horse in Revelation 6 who takes the peace away from the Earth. The increase in terrorist attacks should be a signal to keep preaching. Some may say that it's madness to preach more as terrorist attacks happen but these people need the Gospel. The Gospel must be preached to everyone that includes terrorists. If God can save and sanctify the evilest of men in the past, He can still do today. If Saul the murderer becomes Paul the preacher, then any wicked man can be made righteous by the grace of God.
What I am also confident is that the more Christianity is persecuted, the stronger it gets. The Apostle Paul gives his guarantee saying in 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 the truth of the Christian life. No matter how much Satan attacks the Christian, the mark of the true believer is to endure to the end. Philippians 1:6-7 says that when God begins a good work in the Christian, He is going to finish it until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.