I abhor to hear of people doing rude, mean-spirited, self-righteous things spell calling themselves Christians.
It’s non a fair representation of Christ as well as gives genuine believers a bad name.(1)
But I’m likewise concerned almost a contrasting error.
It’s the belief that if nosotros accurately stand upward for Christ, nosotros won’t appall anyone.
This belief has led many Christians to convey things which Christ didn’t convey as well as stay soundless almost things which Christ clearly as well as unashamedly rebuked.
If nosotros are beingness lite as well as salt, we’ll live on sharing God’s love, comfort, as well as joy. But it’s impossible to portion those things accurately without explaining that nosotros are sinners inward need of a Savior.(2)
If nosotros dearest Christ, we’ll follow where He leads, fifty-fifty when it makes us unpopular.(3) We'll sure enough sense rejection, simply we'll likewise sense bully joy when people hear as well as have Christ!
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(1) Colossians 4:6: “Let your conversation live on e'er amount of grace, seasoned amongst salt, as well as thence that you lot may know how to response everyone.” This passage shows that spell our conversation should live on "seasoned" amongst the tabular array salt of truth, nosotros should acquaint that truth graciously, non rudely.
(2) Why Following Christ Will Never Make Us Popular” for multiple Scriptures almost this subject. See likewise Mark 9:50
(3) Luke 21:17: "Everyone volition abhor you lot because of me." John 15:18-19: “If the the world hates you, expire on inward heed that it hated me first. If you lot belonged to the world, it would dearest you lot every bit its own. As it is, you lot practise non belong to the world, simply I have got chosen you lot out of the world. That is why the the world hates you."
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