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January 2019 newsletter discussion - Loving those who (may) persecute you (or you just don't like)

nathan said:
Yes, we did a newsletter, read it here. It's in your email too. If it's not, you did something wrong, not me. But I love you anyway. (Check your junk mail, or signup here with the email you actually want to use.)

Discuss it here, if you have something to say.
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Thank you, Nathan, for such a coherent collection of thoughts all pointing in the same direction: manifest the aspect of being in the image of God that is our ability to demonstrate love to the world. Thank you for the reminders as well as for providing another newsletter. I look forward to figuring out when I'm next going to be able to join so many other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Keith
 
WE’RE ALIIIIVE!!!!!

Sorry
Somehow, with the retreat announcements and all, the feeling of being back from dormancy is wonderfully refreshing! :):p;)
 
Thank you Nathan. Great message there. I needed that!
 
@nathan it would be better if you made the link to the discussion page in the newsletter an https link.
 
Many of us are in a unique position compared to other Christians
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Here in Wisconsin, and I suspect many other areas of early US settlement outside the Bible belt, things are increasingly post Christian. That's not to say there aren't churches, but many have closed and I run across many faithful families without a church because they had to leave the ones that were left to preserve their own faith. What little remains of the visible church is incredibly corrupt.

So maybe not as unique as we may think. Our reasons are just different.

because of our families, or our beliefs, even, we are rejected (either completely - ostracized, or to some lesser degree) by extended family members, friends, brothers in Christ, and society at large. What should our response to this be? I've seen it all: full-on 'lone wolf' mode - which I understand: "No one's going to get close enough to hurt my family", and other forms of self-protection. But that's not how we were meant to live, and just because we may be living plural doesn't free us from the directive to be light in the world - indeed that circumstance, along with the fact that we receive rejection and accusation, make it critical, I would argue, that we show God's love flowing through us, and model John 13:35: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
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It's not how we were meant to live, but it is the reality nonetheless. I keep trying to find fellowship with other believers in the visible churches, because we are called to one another, but it looks pretty hopeless.
 
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