Richard Sibbes quote
Why Destroying Christian Symbols Won't Work
God wants
His people to have strong encouragement. Particularly, when the mission of the
church to spread the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus is met with aggressive
hostility, God wants His people to know for certain that He has got this. His
resolve remains unchanged. His plan will not fail. Our hope for the future is
rock solid.
The church, historically, has gone through extensive periods of hardship and opposition. Right from the get-go, it was understood that the way of Jesus was going to be radically counter to the patterns and priorities of every culture into which Christianity would be sent. We would not get a warm welcome. Our Christian mission began with these words of Jesus: "In this world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."[1] Jesus told his disciples quite frankly, "If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own but because you are not of…
The church, historically, has gone through extensive periods of hardship and opposition. Right from the get-go, it was understood that the way of Jesus was going to be radically counter to the patterns and priorities of every culture into which Christianity would be sent. We would not get a warm welcome. Our Christian mission began with these words of Jesus: "In this world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."[1] Jesus told his disciples quite frankly, "If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own but because you are not of…
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