The Iran War Through Christian Eyes with Jayson Casper

The war with Iran has left Christians asking difficult questions about military intervention, persecution, and what faithfulness looks like when there are no simple answers. Pastor Bob Erbig sits down with journalist and MBC world partner Jayson Casper, who reports from Beirut, Lebanon, to examine how Iranian Christians themselves are responding to the conflict. Drawing from Jayson’s reporting for Christianity Today and his Middle East Harmony project, they explore two Iranian Christian leaders who share a desire to see an oppressive regime come to an end—yet reach very different conclusions about whether war is the answer.Their conversation moves beyond American political narratives to consider the voices of believers who live with the consequences of these decisions firsthand. Bob and Jayson discuss persecution inside Iran, divisions among Iranian Christians, just-war reasoning, the danger of Christians being labeled foreign agents, and what believers in the United States can learn from Christians living as religious minorities in the Middle East. Through profound disagreement, one conviction remains: Jesus is supreme, and political differences should never become greater than the unity Christians share in Christ.Middle East Harmonyhttps://middleeastharmony.substack.com/