How do you guys handle being rejected by the world because of your faith?
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Handling Rejection
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I just take a deep breath and have a 'moment' with God. I try to connect with him so that I can feel reassured. It's not that I think anybody else is right when they reject my faith, it just kind of makes me feel small and that my beliefs don't matter. It happens quite often with people our age. Almost all of the people I hang around with are not religious or even spiritual, so I end up mostly keeping my faith to myself.
So what I do when I'm rejected because of my faith is say a little prayer, take a moment to let it comfort me, and then I move on. I don't argue with people who want to argue about my faith. I just pray for them and let it go.
So what I do when I'm rejected because of my faith is say a little prayer, take a moment to let it comfort me, and then I move on. I don't argue with people who want to argue about my faith. I just pray for them and let it go.
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I guess in my youth I was lucky.
I was surrounded by a lot of people of faith, even my football team and track team we would pray a lot before a game so I never felt like some Christian outcast.
Obviously I wasn't always surrounded by believers. Whenever I was the odd man out, I Just remembered that the best way to attract others is by example. If you are a positive person and a good friend, people will respond favorable to you.
One of the best ways I demonstrated my Christianity when I was young was in my willingness to help people. You help someone while being sincere, it is almost impossible for them to not respond favorably. Even if they disagree with you, you serve as an example to them that will draw them towards God. Whether it is helping with homework or helping them do a task, doesn't matter. Just by virtue of being willing to help, you bring those you are helping closer to you and God.
Lastly, in terms of handling rejection. That's okay. Instead of thinking of it as a purely yes or no thing, think of it as two separate locations: No to God and Yes to God.
On one side is NO on the other side is YES.
Every time you serve as a good example you bring those around you one step closer to god. Now, some people may require ten steps to get to god, some 20, some 100. But eventually, if those people get enough steps in the right direction, they will eventually get to "yes".
So don't think of it as rejection, but rather that the step you inspired didn't quite lead to yes yet. but because of you, they are one step closer and maybe the next Christian will get them to the finish line
I was surrounded by a lot of people of faith, even my football team and track team we would pray a lot before a game so I never felt like some Christian outcast.
Obviously I wasn't always surrounded by believers. Whenever I was the odd man out, I Just remembered that the best way to attract others is by example. If you are a positive person and a good friend, people will respond favorable to you.
One of the best ways I demonstrated my Christianity when I was young was in my willingness to help people. You help someone while being sincere, it is almost impossible for them to not respond favorably. Even if they disagree with you, you serve as an example to them that will draw them towards God. Whether it is helping with homework or helping them do a task, doesn't matter. Just by virtue of being willing to help, you bring those you are helping closer to you and God.
Lastly, in terms of handling rejection. That's okay. Instead of thinking of it as a purely yes or no thing, think of it as two separate locations: No to God and Yes to God.
On one side is NO on the other side is YES.
Every time you serve as a good example you bring those around you one step closer to god. Now, some people may require ten steps to get to god, some 20, some 100. But eventually, if those people get enough steps in the right direction, they will eventually get to "yes".
So don't think of it as rejection, but rather that the step you inspired didn't quite lead to yes yet. but because of you, they are one step closer and maybe the next Christian will get them to the finish line
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Dear Matthew Mitchell. God is Love, and God wants loving sons and daughters. In Matthew 22: 35-40: Jesus tells us:
" The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like it: love thy neighbour as thyself." In verse 40 we are told: On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " ask and you shall receive," here we ask God for Love and Joy, then thank God and share all love and joy with our neighbour. ( neighbour is all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends) If some people reject us, we win them with love and kindness, Love is very catching and a Christian`s weapon is Love. Love will overcome all enmity and bad behaviour.
The Bible tells us: " Repent and be Born again," leave all selfish wishes and wants and start loving and caring. In
Luke 10: 25-28: Jesus is asked: " Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" Jesus answered: " You know what it says in Matthew 22: 35-40: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind? DO THIS AND
YOU SHALL LIVE. Love is our great weapon, and with love we will overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour.
The Holy Spirit will help and guide you, and Jesus our Saviour will lead you all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY.
I say this with love, Matthew. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
" The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like it: love thy neighbour as thyself." In verse 40 we are told: On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " ask and you shall receive," here we ask God for Love and Joy, then thank God and share all love and joy with our neighbour. ( neighbour is all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends) If some people reject us, we win them with love and kindness, Love is very catching and a Christian`s weapon is Love. Love will overcome all enmity and bad behaviour.
The Bible tells us: " Repent and be Born again," leave all selfish wishes and wants and start loving and caring. In
Luke 10: 25-28: Jesus is asked: " Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" Jesus answered: " You know what it says in Matthew 22: 35-40: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind? DO THIS AND
YOU SHALL LIVE. Love is our great weapon, and with love we will overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour.
The Holy Spirit will help and guide you, and Jesus our Saviour will lead you all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY.
I say this with love, Matthew. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
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We must shift our focus from what doesn't last(in this case mans rejection/opinion and negativity) to what does last(eternal glory with the father and our brother Jesus Christ and focus on these things that are actually important and mean something) It also helps to change your expectations. When you become a man you put away childish ways of thinking. Expecting everyone to like you or think like you is unrealistic. Accepting that people will disagree with you without taking it personal is something that takes time to develop. However if you make it a priority it will become easier to do. To shake off the little things which rejection is.
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Sketcher
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With defiance. Not so much that I don't have enough humility to earnestly weed out any worldliness in the way I come off to people, though. If it's my sin that's causing it, there's no excuse for that. If it's not, I celebrate my identity as being different, in Christ, with different values, and a relationship to my God. And I try to connect with the church as much as I can.
I find that these themes resonate in hardcore music, Christian and even non. Not that the non-Christian hardcore glorifies God or Christianity directly, but they look at their ways and their values and their community similarly to how I look at mine, and while the outside world might be differently defined, I look at it similarly to the way they do.
I find that these themes resonate in hardcore music, Christian and even non. Not that the non-Christian hardcore glorifies God or Christianity directly, but they look at their ways and their values and their community similarly to how I look at mine, and while the outside world might be differently defined, I look at it similarly to the way they do.
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