Re: Europe: Re-Evangelizing?
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:32 am
I think Jesus said something quite similar -MaxPC wrote:One book I read many years ago states:
"If you pray for a spiritual awakening among Christians, then expect to see those Christians persecuted and martyred."
Can't remember the title or author but I do remember that sentence. It illustrates how when a Christian fully lives his discipleship, that the secularists find it irritating.
John 15:17-21
I demand that you love each other, for you get enough hate from the world! But then, it hated me before it hated you. The world would love you if you belonged to it; but you don’t—for I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you. Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave isn’t greater than his master!’ So since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you! The people of the world will persecute you because you belong to me, for they don’t know God who sent me.
Sounds to me that if our Christianity was more reflective of Jesus that the world would not just accept us as religious folk but rather they would hate us. So, why don't they hate us is probably a good question to consider.