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claim to be Christians. Many professing

Christians believe that the persecution that

the Bible speaks of is only physical suffering,

so therefore they dismiss any teaching that

has to do with suffering for “being different”

as a Christian and for living a godly life.

I once asked a young adults Sunday

school class if they had ever been ridiculed

or separated from for not encouraging or

participating in ungodly conversations or

ungodly activities, and not one out of a

group of approximately ten young adults

raised a hand — and some of those young

people had been reared in homes that

professed to be Christian homes and were

affiliated with a professing conservative,

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