An elderly Christian man in the then Communist-controlled Budapest remarked when asked about the effects of persecution and discrimination on the lives of Christians: “It is like the deep, fast-flowing Danube River. The banks of the river were artificially narrowed throughout the city of Budapest. As a result the river’s fast waters dug deeper and deeper into the river bottom.”

Believers under restrictions and persecution have limited freedom and few political options, but their narrowed lives have found great depth by going deeper in Christ.