Thank you. When the church faces opposition, it can be tempting to respond in a worldly fashion, with resistance or political rallies or protests.

But that's not the example Jesus and the apostles set for us.

What should we do?

What weapons are Christians supposed to use?

Alistair Begg explores the answer today on Truth for Life.

We're looking at 1st Peter chapter 2.

I've been speaking out to inanimate objects.

This is a condition that other people have.

I recognize that's nothing in and of itself, particularly.

It depends what you're speaking out about.

Let me tell you the first one was somebody gave me a magazine, a kind friend gave me a magazine, and as I was leafing through it,

I came to an editorial comment which ran to a page which concerned what was referred to as our movement, our movement.

And the author, writing, as it were, in an all-embracing way for everyone who represents

authentic Christianity, was concerned and was chiding me and others for the fact that our movement

wasn't doing too well. And the reason that our movement wasn't doing too well was because people

like me weren't in our movement. And if our movement was going to be successful,

then what would need to happen is that we would have to develop an agenda which would be a more

successful agenda than the other movements which are going on around us.

I read the article, I laid it down on the table,

and I just exclaimed the response of my heart and mind,

I said, I am not in a movement.

The thought in my mind then was, well, what are you in?

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