According to a 2016 Barna study, our civilization used to believe Christianity was irrelevant exactly straightaway sees it equally dangerous. Ninety per centum of unbelievers mean value religious extremism is a threat to social club too forty-five per centum consider Christianity "extremist."
This shouldn't surprise us, exactly it does.
Why? Because:
1. We mean value we're living inwards a Christian culture, exactly nosotros aren't.
2. We mean value that everyone volition dearest Jesus similar nosotros do, exactly they won't.
3. We mean value beingness Christ-like volition brand us popular, exactly it won't.
4. We don't realize we're involved inwards spiritual battle, exactly nosotros are.
We involve to holler upward these words of our Savior:
“If the globe hates you, proceed inwards hear that it hated me first... I accept chosen you lot out of the world. That is why the globe hates you... They volition process you lot this agency because of my name, for they create non know the i who sent me... Whoever hates me hates my Father equally well. ...‘They hated me without reason.’" John 15:18-25
Nothing is to a greater extent than of import that serving too representing our Savior to the world. When nosotros are hated past times men, nosotros tin destination endure confident that nosotros are loved past times God (1 John 3:1).
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