I just have a few questions...
Do you believe a person is always saved, even though they are not going to Church and reading the Bible regularly?
Do you believe only the "worthy" Christians will get raptured and many others will be left behind wondering why God did not take them?
I forget the Bible verse where it states that, only the "select" will be raptured...
Do you think that if a young child accepted Jesus and asked for forgiveness is always saved, even though now, as a teenager is not wanting to go to Church, is this typical teenage behavior?
The teenager, believes in God and says they have accepted to Lord, but just don't like to talk about it "all the time" like the parent?
Just wondering
You seem to be confusing saved verses sanctified. One is a one time event when we get the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and become a new creation. The other is the process of spiritual growth to become more christlike.
Don't confuse works with salvation. If you require the works as proof of salvation, you turn it into a salvation by works. Salvation is a GIFT and that gift is free. Works are a manifestation of our spiritual growth process, not of salvation.
Not growing to spiritual maturity is NOT a loss of salvation but it is a loss of eternal rewards. You have to overcome the trials of your life to gain the overcomers reward. So people don't risk being cast into the lake of fire but they do risk having no position of authority or glory within the kingdom. Of course the heavenly kingdom still needs the janitors and gardeners while others will be rulers over nations, priests or kings that share the throne room.
So if you remember that salvation is a free gift while eternal rewards are earned it makes more sense. People are just jealous of those with salvation that don't live a holy life and accuse them of not being saved. We will each be rewarded according to our deeds after salvation.
Now the Holy Spirit does use events in our life to draw us closer to Yah. You can't look at a persons current position and claim they are not saved. Most teenagers are going to be rebellious to a certain extent for example. I even knew a pastor that fell into a drug addiction. He got healed of it and now has a tremendous gift in delivering others out of addiction. Did he loose his salvation during that time of his life? Absolutely NOT.
Just help the spiritually immature to grow in their maturity without slapping the babies for being babies.
Remember this, none of us are worthy. We all fall short in glory. We can achieve great glory in the eternal kingdom by the amount of His glory we allow to operate through us during our growth process.
You work out your own salvation not your brethren. The salvation spoken of here is the 'salvation of the soul', the like long process of sanctification not the salvation of the spirit, your initial act of being saved.
Many confuse that salvation of the soul with salvation of the spirit. Realize that some will just barely crawl through the heavenly gates in their spiritual diapers while others will be robed in glorious white robes and be worthy to walk in white with Yeshua.
Just getting in the gates is the very beginning. There is a lot more to achieve after salvation to gain great rewards.