2009-09-09T11:58:42-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/in+the+world+not+of+the+world/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2015:19&version=NIV 2009-09-09T11:58:42-05:00 It's natural that the sinful world will hate and persecute Christians--it recognizes that it has no hold over them, and it hates them for it. Christians can expect to be rejected by a world that operates under radically different values than their own.