Why Does Everyone Hate Me? - John 15:18-25
Pastor Skip Heitzig explains how the world misinterprets us Christians as trying to be superior over our peers when we choose to leave our former life to follow Jesus Christ. He tells of a story of the man that invented the umbrella. This man was ridiculed and rocks were thrown at him the first time he used his new invention.
"There is a flipside to being a friend of Jesus. That's true of any friendship. Whenever you ally yourself and make friends with someone, you will incur some enemies because of it. Likewise, some who don't like Jesus won't like us either—and we discover there are quite a few who don't! Let's find out why, and how we can raise our heads high and prevail."
'Riptide' is a full length DVD documentary that examines the history, impact, and future of the Jesus Movement that began on the West Coast of the US in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. With dozens of high-profile interviews, music by Dominic Balli, Sarah Kelly, Crystal Lewis & Ives, and includes exclusive interviews with Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie, and Mark Driscoll.
