We address this evening the last part of the answer to the question "how to talk about our faith to our friends?".
I remind you of the 4 pieces of the answer :
1. Not shy!
2. Not politicians!
3. No saviors!
4. Not the foot!
3 months ago, we saw that, yes, we should talk about our faith to our friends. 2 months ago, we saw that we were not beings manipulators who distort the truth, but we had to have real relationships with our friends. Finally, last month, we saw that the success rate was in the hands of God and not ours.
Today, we finish this series with "the foot". And yes, I do not know about you, but I think when people say around you that you believe in God, it is believed that someone died and risen, that everyone is a sinner, well, I hear more often "but how can you believe such nonsense?", or "Christian = idiot" than "wow, me too, I'd love to hear about such love to me, change my life dramatically and turn to God. " Really? Not you? We must not meet the same people so ...
When we talk about our faith, we often encounter opposition. In 2 Corinthians 4, the text we have followed since the beginning of this series, we read: "We are troubled on every side, but not crushed; worried, but not in despair, persecuted but not abandoned; killed but not destroyed. We carry with us always in our body the death of Jesus that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. "Sexy, no? Suffer like Jesus, it makes you want to everyone. It's not the foot! Well, yet it is actually what is expected when one speaks of him. Sorry, but the world did not really want to hear the message of the Bible. It is a shameful message to him than to recognize they are sinners before God, a confession of weakness. So yes, the opposition, it will be some, and yet now they are nice, they stopped burning Christians, at least France. But as Paul says in our earthly woe, we have an even greater consolation: we live with God in accordance with his will, and we know that we will live with Him for eternity.
I invite you out to compare these two things: a happy land, ephemeral, see unattainable, or heavenly bliss with Him Who created happiness?
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