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Dave in Tenn:
Antaiwan, I don't want to steer you one way or the other, but offer another perspective.  I understand you to mean when you say you're "still considering going for my dad's sake" that you think there might be an opportunity to 'expose those that contradict' when the contradiction is still warm.

Reading in Acts, when Paul visited a new city, one of the first things he did was go to the synagogue.  Of course, he didn't go there to enjoy a nice service, but to preach and to contend.  I know that YOU know you're not Paul and that any 'preaching' you may be allowed to do would just be for your Dad.  I know may not feel quite equipped to handle it.  If that's the truth, then that's the way it is, and no amount of cheer-leading will change that.  

But consider the example.  There's no reason for you to feel 'wrong' about pointing out errors.  You've been asked to do so!  Even if that invitation is a subterfuge, it exists.  Nobody has invited me to do anything close to that.

I'm assuming this is an open-ended invitation.  That gives you some breathing room.  You'll do what's right.    

Shawn Fainn:
I was reading Ray's 'Unequally Yoked' page (http://bible-truths.com/yoked.htm), and even though you weren't bid to attend a 'feast', I think this Scripture applies in a spiritual sense:

1Co 10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

To me, that says "Go, take notes, then critique afterwards ". I probably wouldn't attempt "teaching in the synagogue" until I was very well prepared and led by the Spirit to do so.

Just my 2 cents..

cjwood:
hi dear brother antaiwan.  all i can add is to seek His guidance in this situation and He will surely take you where He has willed you to go.  that is comforting when you realize our Father's great love for each of us.  He will lead your steps, although you don't where it is He is taking you.  take heart in knowing that He knows.  if it is caused that you attend a service with your dad, whatever happens after that is of Him, and if you are to speak to anyone, including your dad, He will give you the works to speak through His spirit within you.  my daddy died right before i was led to bibletruths. i could have spoken to him about the heresy in the churches.  he may not have agreed, but he would have listened.  :(   my mother thinks i have lost it whenever she talks to me about not having a 'church home'.  oh well.  it too is of His doing for His pleasure, and to bring us each into His image. 

claudia

octoberose:
 Antaiwan,
 I hope you don't mind me adding to the post. What I hear from you is a son trying to honor and love his father while wrestling with a church that he finds woefully misled. Unlike many of our friends on this site, I don't really wrestle with this one. I'm a chaplains wife and part of what I do every week to honor my husband is attend services with him. But I have found many opportunities to speak out, though I try very hard to not be contentous with people. I'd be surprised if the majority of us from this site were not once entrenched in the teachings of the 'main stream' church. Where else will be find others who sincerely have a heart for God, but they, just as I was, are blinded by what is right in front of them?  They pray for God's mercy when family members have died, but they are scared that their loved one had no walk with the Lord and will go to hell. Many of these people will want to know the Truth! And frankly, for me to despise them when I was them seems very wrong, judgmental.  I am still making my way in this. My hope and my heart is that my husband will one day agree to a home church after the understanding he has now grows some more. But for now I can tell you that the year I've spent here in this fellowship has been the most fulfilling, important spiritual year of my life. I truly want that for others.

markn902:
i would...(if it were me  :) )
Pray to God and ask for help. ask him to see the intentions of your heart and the love you have for your father and ask him to be with you as you go to church with your father. ..then relax and go His will WILL be done  :D

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