If the World Hates You

If the World Hates You
John 15.18-27

We are all amateur psychiatrists now. Our modern culture has learnt enough from the founders of modern psychology and psychiatry for people to toss bits and pieces of it into ordinary conversations, articles in popular newspapers and television chat-shows. We know about ‘phobias’. We know about ‘neuroses’ – at least, we probably don’t know exactly what they are, but we know that to call someone ‘neurotic’ means that they aren’t thinking straight and are in danger of not acting straight either. We know about ‘Freudian slips’ – when someone accidentally mentions something they were worried about, but were intending to keep secret...

Taken from John for Everyone Part 2 – by Tom Wright