Therefore the world hates you
From He Gets Us has an agenda web site.
How did the story of Jesus, the world’s greatest love story, get twisted into a
tool to judge, harm, and divide?
We’ve done a lot of homework on our culture. We
researched how people feel about each other and what they think about Jesus and
Christianity. We’ve connected with thousands of people of various faith
traditions and those who claim no religion. We spoke to all kinds of people —
different backgrounds, beliefs, and, yes, political affiliations. And this is
what we’ve learned: From politics to sexuality and religion, so many of us feel
like our values, beliefs, and identities are under attack by the ideological
“others” around us. Many perceive those who differ with them on issues of
justice, dignity, and humanity as not just wrong or misguided but also as evil.
As enemies. We often see these “others” as close-minded, selfish, hypocritical
— and if we’re honest, many of us respond in kind.
You know I would not have to have done a lot of homework to
know why the world hates us.
John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, know that it has 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 world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you.
(ESV)
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