Pastor Artur Pawlowski is pastor of Street Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is a Canadian who was born in Poland and grew up under a Communist regime seeing soldiers with machine guns and tanks on the streets. People rose up in 1981 to fight for their freedoms. Soon after, he watched the end of communism. In 1995 he immigrated to Canada and went through depression, suicidal moods and heavy drinking. He lost all his money from his escapades in traveling through Europe. As he was married in 1997 his wife introduced him to Christianity. He later became known as a street advocate and started "Street Church Ministries" which took the Gospel into the middle of the worst places for drugs and prostitution in the city of Calgary. He became the recipient of many threats in his advocacy of getting people to leave the lifestyle of drugs and various individuals have sought to shut him down. He stood up during the time of the COVID lockdowns and has faced many trials for his stand for the Gospel and for human rights. He's the author of Lions Do Not Bow: The Unbreakable Courage of Canada's Pastor. Having lived under communism, an existence that is so foreign to most of us, Pastor Pawlowski described what it's like to live in an environment where every aspect of your life is under government control. A key point from his comments is where he notes 2 Corinthians 3:17: "...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Is it possible the reason we're seeing an erosion of liberties in America (and other Western nations) is because in many respects God is not welcome here? You decide how to answer this question after hearing this warning from Pastor Pawlowski.
