Dear Christians, I am writing to encourage you in the face of increasing pressure to conform to the world. It may feel like we are wading into unprecedented times for those who want to faithfully live the way God has laid out but I endeavour to encourage you that although the pressure and persecution is different it is not new. A great cloud of witnesses One of the wonderful things about living in the 21st century is that we have thousands of years of testimonies from faithful Christians to look back upon – and thousands of years of Biblical history to also be encouraged by. In Hebrews Chapter 12 verse 1, Paul says –