• If you are living peacefully with the world, everyone around you is happy with you and nothing about your life was offensive to others; if you did not have any enemies and no one hated or despised you; if you are offended once you see someone preaching the truth; then you need to doubt your Christianity and you need to know that there is something wrong with your faith as this is a sign of corruption of the spirit. Not for the sake of being different and opposing everyone else, no, but Christianity is supposed to be counter-cultural and against the flow of the world. Our Lord says: «If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.» (John 15:18)

«We must obey God rather than men.»	(Acts 5:29)
«If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.»	(John 15:19)
«So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.»	(Matthew 10:26)
«And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.»	(Galatians 5:24)
«For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.»	(Galatians 5:13)
«But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.»	(Galatians 5:16)
«For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.»	(John 3:20)
«Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.»	(John 10:1)
«Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.»	(Ephesians 5:11)
«Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.»	(1 John 2:15-17)
«So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.»	(Ephesians 4:14)
«Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!»	(1 Corinthians 9:16)
«For I am not ashamed of the gospel»	(Romans 1:16)
«Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.»	(Romans 12:2)
«From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves» (احترسوا حتى من كلّ شبه شرّ)	(1 Thessalonians 5:22) DRH
«..not to teach any different doctrine.. whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith»	(1 Timothy 1:3-5)