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Welcome back to another episode of Theology Applied. I am your host, Pastor Joel Webbin with Right Response Ministries.

In this episode, I'm pleased to welcome back my personal friend, John Harris, from Conversations That Matter.

And we get blatantly honest in this particular episode

talking about the reality that Christians are an oppressed group. It may not be politically

correct to say that, but we don't really care if it's politically correct. We're in the

business of saying what is true.

There are lots of individuals and certain groups that like to pretend that they're oppressed.

But Christians actually are.

Historically, Christians have always been persecuted.

Jesus, in fact, said, the world is going to hate you. But it is a bit novel for us

in the West, especially for us in America. But that's the world that we're coming into. We are

coming into a world that increasingly is hostile and hates and even wants to shoot Christians,

even if they're nine-year-old children.

So how do we prepare to raise our kids, to protect our families, and to be bold for the

gospel of Jesus Christ in the environment that we're coming into now?

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