The mission of God’s people through the Hebrew Bible, continuing through the New Testament and Church history, is to provide a living expression of faith to each generation. So, considering the culture we live in when our faith and biblical worldview is publicly and brutally threatened and when the media’s rhetoric is so divisive, hate-filled, and accusatory, how do we respond?  Church, if we’re not willing to be faith-forward and identified with Jesus in the face of antagonism, why do we imagine He should look for us when He returns? He said that if we deny Him before men, He’ll deny us before the Father. But we’ve been sloppy in our presentations of the gospel because we’re told we should make friends with the world more than we be advocates for Jesus. This causes us to cooperate with wickedness. Now, we don’t want to respond to the ungodliness around us in anger, and certainly not in violence, but we have a biblical mandate to unflinchingly and waveringly present the truth of the gospel to the world in which we live—no matter the cost.

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