John 15:12
John 15:18-21
“Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life.”
Dietrich bonhoeffer
“So much popular Western evangelical religiosity is so shallow and selfish. It promises so much and demands so little. It offers success, personal happiness, peace of mind, material prosperity, but it hardly speaks of repentance, sacrifice, self-denial, holy lifestyle, and a willingness to die for Christ.”
A persecuted Christian
The authority of Christ
John 18:20-21 and John 12:49
The presence of Christ
John 18:22-25 and 1 Corinthians 3:16
John 16:1
“ Kill us, torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust; your injustice is the proof that we are innocent. Therefore God suffers (allows) that we thus suffer. The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Turtullian
John 15:26-27
Romans 5:10
James 4:4