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Alrighty, we find ourselves in what book of the Bible?

We're in John.

We're in John Chapter 15.

If you've got a Bible, go there now and let me set it up.

So if we are believing the Bible for those of us

who are Christians when we die we go to heaven but in the meantime we live here

and the question is what is the relationship between the God who rules

the kingdom of heaven and the cultures and nations of the earth and that is where

we find ourselves and we find ourselves looking at the words of Jesus today

and learning why the world hates Christianity.

Before we jump in, let me read for you some transcripts.

And so this is the project that I wanted you some

years ago before our current political situation

before you know many of the things that have transpired culturally this was a bit of a

prophetic look it was some years ago and I commissioned a research team to figure

out the primary objections of people

to Christianity and then I wanted to figure out what do people really think and say when they don't think that we're in the room and so we commissioned I commissioned focus groups with a woman who at that time had run

1,700 focus groups in 25 years of service for

political leaders, for companies, for thought and trend leaders, and these focus groups, they would get together and they would have an honest conversation that was recorded and transcribed.

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