Do Christians Really Suffer in America?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If Jesus and his apostles promised that faithful Christians would suffer, how can comfortable disciples make sense of their experience?

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0:00.0	I'm happy Monday.
0:06.2	If you live in the prosperous West, you are blessed like very few people have ever been
0:11.6	blessed in the history of the world.
0:13.6	There's a glut of digital technologies that we have like the chain of technology we're
0:18.1	using right now to communicate with one another.
0:21.6	More importantly, things like infant and child mortality rates are lower than ever and life
0:27.4	expecting to see rates have peaked and are projected to keep rising.
0:31.6	Here in America, few if any people die of starvation.
0:36.6	Famines are unheard of here.
0:38.9	Motor vehicle fatalities have been in steep decline for the past 50 years, same with plane
0:43.6	related deaths.
0:45.6	Poverty rates in the states have plummeted in the past 50 years.
0:49.3	National GDP continues to go up into the right.
0:53.3	Life is as safe as ever.
0:55.2	Here are some of the most comfortable people who have ever existed on this planet and
0:59.6	all these blessings together raise questions for Christians who are promised that they
1:03.5	will suffer in this life.
1:06.4	A listener named Marissa is trying to work all this out for herself.
1:11.1	Hello, Pastor John.
1:12.1	I'm leading a Bible study through first Peter right now.
1:14.5	As you know, Peter makes it very clear that Christians will suffer just as Christ did.
1:20.1	I'm curious how we Christians suffer in a first world country like America where we are
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