Chief Rabbi: When Judaism Is Easy People Lose Faith
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Chief Rabbi: When Judaism Is Easy People Lose Faith
Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, once referenced what he called the "counter-intuitive phenomena of Jewish history"—a phenomena that applies to Christians as well. "When it was hard to be a Jew," Sacks wrote, "people stayed Jewish. When it was easy to be a Jew, people stopped being Jewish. Globally, this is the major Jewish problem of our time."
Related Topics:
- Adversity
| - Apathy|
- Apostasy|
- Backsliding|
- Body of Christ|
- Church|
- Comfort|
- Commitment|
- Complacency|
- Dedication|
- Difficulty|
- Endurance|
- Faith & Circumstances|
- Faithfulness|
- Focus|
- Goals|
- Hardship|
- Indifference|
- Lukewarmness|
- Martyrdom|
- Martyrs|
- Mediocrity|
- Motivation|
- Neglect|
- Negligence|
- Overcoming|
- Pain|
- Persecution|
- Perseverance|
- Priorities|
- Purpose|
- Struggles|
- Suffering|
- Tears|
- Tenacity|
- Test|
- Testing|
- Trial|
- Trouble|
- Vision|
- Wholehearted devotion|
- Zeal
Scripture:
- Acts 5:41
| - Isaiah 29:13|
- Matthew 24:12|
- Revelation 2:4|
- Luke 6:46|
- Romans 2:13|
- 1 Corinthians 9:27|
- Romans 12:11|
- Acts 20:19|
- Titus 1:16|
- Luke 11:28|
- Acts 2:43-47|
- Hosea 14:1|
- Luke 9:23|
- Matthew 7:21-23|
- Romans 8:17-18|
- Matthew 5:10-12|
- Revelation 2:8-11|
- John 15:1-17|
- Philippians 1:27-30|
- 1 Peter 4:12-19|
- Hebrews 6:11-12|
- Hebrews 12:1|
- Matthew 16:24|
- James 1:2-4|
- 2 Corinthians 13:5|
- Romans 5:3-5|
- 1 Peter 1:7|
- Matthew 15:8|
- Revelation 3:14-22|
- Proverbs 24:30-34|
- Luke 17:26-27|
- Jeremiah 8:5|
- Luke 18:8
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