Tim Farron: You’re meant to feel marginalised as a Christian
From inews:
A recent survey carried out by Christian campaigning group Premier found that many ordinary Christians in the UK felt marginalised. Tim Farron told i why he doesn’t think he’s been marginalised as a Christian in politics – but argues it is part of the Christian experience to struggle and to suffer – and if you don’t feel that way, you aren’t doing it right.
If you had to pick a country in the world in which to live freely as a Christian, you’d probably pick the UK. However, many Christians do feel marginalised, and they are meant to… the Bible tells us regularly that our faith will go against the grain, that we’ll suffer for being a Christian. Being Christian is not meant to be easy.
The writer of Philippians says “it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him”.
Now, being harangued by journalists or slagged off by political opponents for my faith, hardly compares with the struggles of being a Christian in North Korea, where you have a one in four chance of being imprisoned for your faith. But the point is that Christian faith will go against the grain, if you aren’t struggling at least a bit against the expectations and assumptions of the world- then well, you should be!
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