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Originally Posted by ChaplainPaul

I've had a couple of opportunities to preach in downtown Fort Worth (the real veterans are out there every week) and most of the hecklers I saw were professing Christians.


11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

No, it's not easy to do.
41 ¶ And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus...

You're kidding, the hecklers were "Christians"?! What on earth made them act that way to you?
I know, it is a blessing from God to be reviled and hated by the world. It means we're on the right path. The straight and narrow.