For this week, our class started our discussion around the quote " persecution always makes a better Christian" from our book. I do not have my copy of the book yet, so I don't recall the title of the book, but I'll have it for next week. From there, we looked at Phillipians chapter 1 and 1 Thessalonians 3 to discover if that quote had any truth. Overall the main point that we saw in the Scripture was that Paul was concerned about how the churches dealt with persecution and that he rejoiced when the gospel was spread as a result of faithfulness to God through the suffering. The church of Thessalonica was the best example of this. They endured there suffering and as a result, they became a model of Christ for the people around them. From this point, we determined as a class that the quote had some truth. Though persecution does not always make a better Christian, it does make Christians more focused and determined to witness to others and provides an avenue to do so. For the point of application, we said that since we do not have a lot of suffering or persecution for Christ, it is harder for us to find people to witness to, yet we are called to do so. To be better Christians, we need to get out of our comfort zones and spread the gospel as we a called to do.