What do you think brothers and sisters?
I looked at the web page with this article. One thing stands out > the list of articles pretty much all about things which mean there is some threat against Christians.
And the article did not have much to help a person to know how to handle the supposed problem.
So, if most of their writings are about things claimed to be against Christians . . . while they say nothing or little about how God's word says to deal with real persecution . . . why?
Jesus does say to expect to be persecuted, doesn't He? And He says to rejoice when people speak against us falsely . . . for His name's sake.
But I have a way of not rejoicing . . . and in my mind even inventing paranoid items of ones speaking against me . . . while I am not rejoicing. So, may be I still can feed on being rejected so I can criticize others for rejecting me. It is not about Jesus. Of course, if I want to feed on being rejected, I have to invent it, pretty much . . . I now can see.
By the way . . . is it not so, how children can scream that you hate them . . . or they hate you . . . when you say no to what is not good for them?
There are things which God knows are not right for us. Among other things, there are wrong things which can help to keep us
and our attention away from what is so better.
I think of this > we can point at others who are wrong, so our attention is elsewhere from dealing with how we ourselves are wrong > so I'm offering maybe something like what >
Probably better to use sexual immorality when preaching on such matters. After all, homosexuals only account for about one percent of the population. Why pay them undue attention.
I would prefer to preach against the widespread sins, such as gluttony, gambling, love of money, worldliness. The churches are swimming in these sins.
Yes, ones might be so busy with pointing their finger at certain people . . . while not dealing with their own sins which are very busy with ruining them and their lives and their health and example for their own children.
There is the attention item . . . where does our attention belong?
Why would ones constantly point the finger at others??
And why does sexual stuff get so much attention????
Interpretation of that Sta Matthew quote appears to be the sole and doubtful reference to sex in the Gospels.
So, whether there is one or one hundred references . . . sexual stuff is not an ongoing attention getting item in the Bible.
And my opinion is if we get into all the good things God's word says about how to love and relate, this can keep our attention where we belong . . . so we aren't getting into whichever things really are wrong.
But now we see so much fighting against the products, instead of what has helped to produce them.
If you don't like the product, stop what has helped to produce it!!!!!