We don’t normally promote outside materials but we would like to recommend an incredibly moving documentary that has become available on DVD. There have been many prophetic words about future attacks against Jews and the need for the church to step up to protect them when the time comes.
The French documentary “Weapons The Spirit” is about Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a tiny Protestant farming village in the mountains of south-central France. Defying the Nazis and the French government that was collaborating with the Nazis, the villagers of the area of Le Chambon provided a safe haven throughout the war for whoever knocked on their door. Most of the villagers were proud descendants of the Huguenots, first Protestants in Catholic France. They remembered their own history of persecution, and it mattered to them. They also read the Bible, and tried to heed the admonition to love your neighbor as yourself. Their pastor, André Trocmé, reminded them the day after France surrendered to Nazi Germany, that they should “resist the violence that will be brought to bear on their consciences through the weapons of the spirit.” During World War II, in and around Le Chambon, 5,000 Jews were sheltered—by 5,000 Christians!
http://www.chambon.org/weapons_en.htm