\u201cIf with heart and soul you\u2019re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you\u2019re still better off. Don\u2019t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you\u2019re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They\u2019ll end up realizing that they\u2019re the ones who need a bath. It\u2019s better to suffer for doing good, if that\u2019s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That\u2019s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others\u2019 sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all\u2014was put to death and then made alive\u2014to bring us to God.\u201d 1 PETER 3:13-18 (The Message)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIf with heart and soul you\u2019re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you\u2019re still better off. Don\u2019t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you\u2019re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people…<\/p>\n