Suffering for the gospel

Ben Green | 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20 

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: you suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out.

As Ben reminds us, the relative lack of persecution in modern Western countries is an exception to the experience of the church throughout the ages. If we truly stand for Christ we will face opposition, just as he did, yet nothing can take away the peace with God that he offers.

The recording begins with the reading from Pat Clayton.