Considering how “nice” most Christians are, it’s surprising how angry people can become at them!
Christians naturally want to people to like and accept them. They tend to value relationships. Yet it ought never to surprise disciples of Jesus when people oppose and even hate them. Jesus warned us it would be so.
One of the great paradoxes is that a Messiah who embodied love in His very existence should engender such hate toward Him. Yet, though Christ upholds love, He also espouses light. And darkness cannot stand light, no matter how loving it might be!
Even as Jesus was loving sinners, sinners were nailing Him to a cross.
Likewise, Jesus warned His followers that, just as people hated Him, they would despise His followers also. We must always keep in mind that their hostility is not toward us, but toward our Lord (Unless of course you are behaving like a jerk!). While we ought to do everything within our power to be at peace with others, we must also resign ourselves to the truth that as long as we live in a world that is permeated with spiritual darkness, there will be those who take offense at our Lord, and at us.