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I can relate, but in reverse. Because of how 'Christian' people treated others I've been met with hostility. i feel that people really blow their witness to others when they judge them on appearance or whatever. I've also had Christians judge me because I sometimes dress "non-traditionally." It's all so counter productive!
I have been a Christian for less than a year and I have not been subjected to anything big. I get some little comments like "I can't tell that story because Toska is here" or people hesitate to say something because they think I will judge them. I do appreciate that people try not to cuss around me, though. Then there are the strange looks when I/we pray in public, like in restaurants before a meal.
I do appreciate the fact that my students think it is great that I am Christian (I teach high school math). They have told me they are glad I am still "cool". I laugh because, if a class is being trying I will stop and say a silent prayer, and someone who does not know me very well in the class will say "What is she doing?". One of the other kids will say "Shhh, she is praying--it will only take a minute". I love that they accept that about me.
What has been hurtful to me is people that I know who have told me not to start in on them about God. I have also felt a coolness from some people that I thought were my friends--they think I am going to start preaching at them about their lives. Right now, I am praying for those friends and waiting for the opportunity to witness to them. I am hoping that my actions and obvious happiness will have an effect on them and make them wonder what they are missing in their lives.
I know there are trials to come. I do not look forward to that but, I will not run from it either. I knew before becoming a Christian that it would not always be easy. One thing I cannot and will not ever do is deny Christ. Whatever persecution I may ever face in my life, He will be by my side. How could I deny the One that is everything to me?
I do appreciate the fact that my students think it is great that I am Christian (I teach high school math). They have told me they are glad I am still "cool". I laugh because, if a class is being trying I will stop and say a silent prayer, and someone who does not know me very well in the class will say "What is she doing?". One of the other kids will say "Shhh, she is praying--it will only take a minute". I love that they accept that about me.
What has been hurtful to me is people that I know who have told me not to start in on them about God. I have also felt a coolness from some people that I thought were my friends--they think I am going to start preaching at them about their lives. Right now, I am praying for those friends and waiting for the opportunity to witness to them. I am hoping that my actions and obvious happiness will have an effect on them and make them wonder what they are missing in their lives.
I know there are trials to come. I do not look forward to that but, I will not run from it either. I knew before becoming a Christian that it would not always be easy. One thing I cannot and will not ever do is deny Christ. Whatever persecution I may ever face in my life, He will be by my side. How could I deny the One that is everything to me?
J
If you guys don't mind, I just want to gather some experiences from people 
big or small experience, yours or someone else experience, please share
big or small experience, yours or someone else experience, please share
Rest varies..
So i find it better to be not bothered by what other people think.
Be right with God or struggle to do so-my aim.That's the total of my experience because God Never Change and He is worthy of Worship.
F
I'm from the Bahamas where the church as an organization is corrupt. Denominations are happy to tell people that they started a church, they don't really know the men & women they choose to be pastors. They pick locals to run the church. The Bahamas has the highest rate of murder, rape and abuse against women & children in the region. Pastors are a product of the environment. They are child molesters, rapist, drug pushers, thieves, liars, child molesters.
Anyway, I believe in living a holy life which is simply being obedient to God. I was celibate since I was about 20 years old. It was very abnormal. Most people in my generation & older are a part of the church. Yet, my lifestyle was an irritation to those I went to church with. I worked at the church as well. I attended Dr. Myles Munroes' church for over 15 years. I was always asked by those in & out of the church why I did not live the way everyone else did. Women are treated as the property of men. In order for women to get &/or keep a good job they must be seen to 'have a man'. So that men wont feel bad. They feel threatened if women get ahead on their own. It's a close knit environment where everyone has to be connected to someone else. If you have no support, you are done. My family was never that close to me, so I did not even have that.
My life and confession about what I knew the bible said a believer is made people question there confession of faith. They wen to to the pastors. Then they would come back to me & I has a bunch of scriptures to refute what they were saying. They really believe even if they are selling drugs, prostituting, whatever, they are so loved by God that He would not allow them to end up in hell. They loved to say that Gods' love is like a mother's love. No matter what a mothers' son did to end up in prison that mother would be there to try to help them. They preached this all the time. It was a favorite quote by people.
Anyway, the pastor, Myles, got so fed up that he told people to stop talking to me. My family was ecstatic. They felt that this gave them vindication & made me the one that was in error. It went far beyond not talking to me. People yelled at me on the streets. The church & my family spread the rumor that I was a lesbian. That can get you killed in places like the Bahamas or Jamaica. I was threatened, beaten up, kicked out of every place I tried to rent. My family did not take me in. Sometimes my aunt would only to appease those who were not yet involved in all of this but knew which family I was a part of. They would ask me why my family was not helping me when they had homes with empty bed rooms & businesses where I could work.
After a lot of fasting & praying to get out of the country, God told me how I would get out & it happened just as He said.
Even now, there are so many Bahamians here in Florida that I have not completely escaped their harassment. I've seen some of the people from back home & they immediately start telling people not to listen to me because I'm not a true Christian, but a lesbian. I actually lost a lot of customers doing sales in Broward because of this.
That is the nature of Bahamians they become excited when they go after someone and never stop.
I was actually picked up by the police in the Bahamas once and carried to the Princess Margaret Hospital. They tried to have me institutionalized in the asylum. Man, I was upset. However, God already spoke to me that they would try this & I actually called a few prayer lines about a month before this happened. I also was in the law library looking up my rights & learned a lot before this happened. I was prepared. I kept calm on the outside anyway. I asked them repeatedly for the documents they were supposed to have signed in order to have the authority to pick me up to be locked up. The officers got so nervous after a while they left me at the hospital without confining me. I talked to the doctor who looked like he wanted to burst out laughing the whole time. He asked me about what I believed concerning drinking, smoking etc. Then he asked me if I thought everyone should live by the same standards I lived by. He asked if I could hear Gods' voice. I said yes, then he told me I was hearing voices.
I did not get locked away but once a doctor says you have a mental problem you can not testify in court. Which is what I was trying to do at the time. I wanted to fight back against being kicked out all the time & I had filed to take my landlord to court. He & his wife arranged all of this. So he counter sued & even though I filed weeks before him, his case against me came up first & I was not allowed to speak.
I used to go around on the street telling people because all they wanted to hear was the prosperity gospel and how much God was going to bless them without giving one thought to obeying God in any area of their life - things were going to become hard. The exact opposite was going to happen. The economy would fall, jobs would leave the country as businesses closed. They would not be able to live the kind of slack life they were used to. I knew this as a fact because God told me during my first 40 day fast. I later found out a pastor was prophesying the same thing here in the US - David Wilkerson.
People laughed at me, the saying was at the time, "Money like dirt". In other words that's how much money people had. Young teens could buy their cars before they left high school just with the tips they accumulated packing groceries. Men walked around with their pockets bulging. People also started saying, "If you don't have money, you don't want money. It's all around for the taking."
Two years after I was faithfully warning people the recession hit. It was finally not so hard to get something to eat because some people now respected me and began asking me questions about the bible. They would give me $80 at a time. The pastors became more aggressive actually having meetings & countering things I said on the streets on the radio shows. It was something.
Anyway, I believe in living a holy life which is simply being obedient to God. I was celibate since I was about 20 years old. It was very abnormal. Most people in my generation & older are a part of the church. Yet, my lifestyle was an irritation to those I went to church with. I worked at the church as well. I attended Dr. Myles Munroes' church for over 15 years. I was always asked by those in & out of the church why I did not live the way everyone else did. Women are treated as the property of men. In order for women to get &/or keep a good job they must be seen to 'have a man'. So that men wont feel bad. They feel threatened if women get ahead on their own. It's a close knit environment where everyone has to be connected to someone else. If you have no support, you are done. My family was never that close to me, so I did not even have that.
My life and confession about what I knew the bible said a believer is made people question there confession of faith. They wen to to the pastors. Then they would come back to me & I has a bunch of scriptures to refute what they were saying. They really believe even if they are selling drugs, prostituting, whatever, they are so loved by God that He would not allow them to end up in hell. They loved to say that Gods' love is like a mother's love. No matter what a mothers' son did to end up in prison that mother would be there to try to help them. They preached this all the time. It was a favorite quote by people.
Anyway, the pastor, Myles, got so fed up that he told people to stop talking to me. My family was ecstatic. They felt that this gave them vindication & made me the one that was in error. It went far beyond not talking to me. People yelled at me on the streets. The church & my family spread the rumor that I was a lesbian. That can get you killed in places like the Bahamas or Jamaica. I was threatened, beaten up, kicked out of every place I tried to rent. My family did not take me in. Sometimes my aunt would only to appease those who were not yet involved in all of this but knew which family I was a part of. They would ask me why my family was not helping me when they had homes with empty bed rooms & businesses where I could work.
After a lot of fasting & praying to get out of the country, God told me how I would get out & it happened just as He said.
Even now, there are so many Bahamians here in Florida that I have not completely escaped their harassment. I've seen some of the people from back home & they immediately start telling people not to listen to me because I'm not a true Christian, but a lesbian. I actually lost a lot of customers doing sales in Broward because of this.
That is the nature of Bahamians they become excited when they go after someone and never stop.
I was actually picked up by the police in the Bahamas once and carried to the Princess Margaret Hospital. They tried to have me institutionalized in the asylum. Man, I was upset. However, God already spoke to me that they would try this & I actually called a few prayer lines about a month before this happened. I also was in the law library looking up my rights & learned a lot before this happened. I was prepared. I kept calm on the outside anyway. I asked them repeatedly for the documents they were supposed to have signed in order to have the authority to pick me up to be locked up. The officers got so nervous after a while they left me at the hospital without confining me. I talked to the doctor who looked like he wanted to burst out laughing the whole time. He asked me about what I believed concerning drinking, smoking etc. Then he asked me if I thought everyone should live by the same standards I lived by. He asked if I could hear Gods' voice. I said yes, then he told me I was hearing voices.
I did not get locked away but once a doctor says you have a mental problem you can not testify in court. Which is what I was trying to do at the time. I wanted to fight back against being kicked out all the time & I had filed to take my landlord to court. He & his wife arranged all of this. So he counter sued & even though I filed weeks before him, his case against me came up first & I was not allowed to speak.
I used to go around on the street telling people because all they wanted to hear was the prosperity gospel and how much God was going to bless them without giving one thought to obeying God in any area of their life - things were going to become hard. The exact opposite was going to happen. The economy would fall, jobs would leave the country as businesses closed. They would not be able to live the kind of slack life they were used to. I knew this as a fact because God told me during my first 40 day fast. I later found out a pastor was prophesying the same thing here in the US - David Wilkerson.
People laughed at me, the saying was at the time, "Money like dirt". In other words that's how much money people had. Young teens could buy their cars before they left high school just with the tips they accumulated packing groceries. Men walked around with their pockets bulging. People also started saying, "If you don't have money, you don't want money. It's all around for the taking."
Two years after I was faithfully warning people the recession hit. It was finally not so hard to get something to eat because some people now respected me and began asking me questions about the bible. They would give me $80 at a time. The pastors became more aggressive actually having meetings & countering things I said on the streets on the radio shows. It was something.
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