What persecution looks like in the West

In the West, adults may not experience persecution for our religious beliefs. But our kids do. Assuming things are the same as they were when I was at school, the merciless teasing and ostracism that Christian kids and teenagers experience is certainly persecution. Maybe one thing parents and Sunday School teachers need to be doing is teaching kids from the parts of the Bible that talk about persecution and helping them to stand firm.

However it's possible that kids today are a lot more tolerant - so perhaps blantant teasing only happens if a Christian kid tries to actively evangelise their peers. This situation would be confusing for a Christian kid - all their classmates saying that it's okay to be a Christian, and yet they're not interested in being one and they think that other religions are okay too. We need to help our kids deal with this too.