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indianabob:
Very interesting and detailed comments from one and all.

I suppose most of us have had similar experiences and concerns.

One advantage that we on the forum have is the SURE knowledge that God has a place for our spouses and our children and even our friends who don't attend any church.  So I ask, when we consider whether we should go along with the family in order to keep peace or to protect them from error, are we acting out of fear or something close to fear? 

We really don't need to have any concern in this area.  "Take no concern for the morrow"  We can try what seems good to us today and reserve the right to change when we see that it isn't working as expected.  Wouldn't we do the same for anyone else?

After all, the worst that can happen is that our loved ones will be judged and purified by a loving Father and Son when the time is best for them.  And if we let God set the time table, neither we nor they will suffer from frustration, arguments and a feeling of helplessness in the home.

We should love others equal to ourselves and even though blood draws us closer than a valued friendship, we do need to realize that God has things under control.

As one person has alread said, you children are going to be exposed to all type of error at school and in the street, just make sure that what they see and hear at home is truth as much as it is in your power to provide.  Even little children are a times very perceptive.  Even little children in their personal conversations with their peers, eventually realize the difference between truth and myth.  Our goal as parents should be to have them discover, as they become older, that Dad and Mom always told them the best truth that God gave them to know and that Dad and Mom were able to accept correction with humility and dignity.  As much as you try, you cannot be perfect in everything and the only solution therefore is to repent (change, correct your path) every day as the truth becomes evident to you.

Our friends and family who are not called at this time, do not have the same options that we enjoy.  So, we need to be very forgiving and patient with them as if we were Christ to them.

Just my views,  Bob

Bradigans:

--- Quote from: mari_et_pere on June 26, 2007, 01:46:30 PM ---Ches, yeah I remember Snack's thread you refer to. I've thought of the 15 oz of lies vs the 1 oz of truth. But you see, they're going to be there eating that pound of lies wether I'm there or not.

I don't know...

Matt

--- End quote ---

1 Corinthians 15:33 - Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Could Satan being luring you? I'm often tempted myself. But there's nothing there.Matthew 10:37-38 says - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

I believe as a man, you've got to stand for THE WORD. In a christian marriage Ephesians 5:23 says - For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 

gmik:
Hi Bradigans.  Good to see ya posting!!!

fe32k:
Thanks Brad, those are my feelings exactly. I thought I was alone for a sec.

Diane not easy to admit that, but like Ray I try to back everything I say with scripture. If I feel strongly about something emotions might sneek in sometimes. I hope everyone here realizes that I speak out of concern and love.

God be with you,
Roy

Bradigans:
How's it going Gena?


And Roy, Galatians 5:9 says - A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.1 Corinthians 5:7-8 says - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I hope i'm using these scriptures in context.

Anyway, why would someone want to go back to a lie? All I can say is, Satan is cunning.   

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