Why the World Hates Christians: Understanding the Root of Hostility

Loading player...

Some Christians are really not ready for the world's hatred. They believe they can still be on great terms with the world if they are diplomatic, or winsome in personality, or explain things better, or do better marketing and branding of Christianity, or do more apologetics and show reasonable people just how reasonable Christianity is. Why does the world respond to Christians with enmity? Whom do they hate and why? Jesus teaches us in John 15, explaining exactly why the world has such hostility towards Christians

15 Dec 2024 English South Africa Religion & Spirituality · Christianity

Other recent episodes

John and the Resurrection

The Gospel of John is one of the eyewitness accounts of the Resurrection. And it has one of those surprising, unexpected details that you would expect in an eyewitness account. Here in John, we have an eyewitness telling you what he saw, and why it convinced him. And at the…

20 Apr 19 min

What produces real faith?

What produces real faith in the heart? Mary sees a number of things on this Sunday morning that many would count as evidence, but they do not persuade her. Instead, faith rises up in Mary's heart because of a very particular event that is still true for all of us…

13 Apr 25 min

The empty tomb

The tomb of Jesus is surely one of the most wonderful things in the world, precisely because it is empty. There is no other empty object in the world that provokes such veneration, such fascination, such adoration precisely because, and only because it is empty. But before it was empty,…

6 Apr 21 min

The Apostle John - giving us a close-up

Of all the apostles, John is the only one who can say that he was actually at the cross. The others fled in Gethsemane; Peter left and wept bitterly once he had denied the Lord three times. It appears it was only John that followed all the events. John, it…

30 Mar 25 min

Jesus bearing our injustice

One of the greatest paradoxes of all is this: God will bring justice to the universe, through His Son bearing our injustice. The Son of God was unjustly treated, unfairly treated, and ultimately bore on the cross all our injustice. In John 18 and 19 we once again admire and…

23 Mar 23 min

All episodes