I'm writing this post in the hopes of clarification and and what I could possible do for my brother.
I don't think I myself have a total understanding or view in which a person is truly saved and right with God. Sometimes the Bible seem to make it so clear and often simple, that by the grace of God we are saved if we believe in his Son Jesus as our lord and savior. That he did everything we could not, so by repentance and being born again in following Jesus, by having a relationship with Him, praying, talking, trusting in his will over our lives. This seem to be somewhat indications of having a genuine faith, from my understanding and point of view. When the talk goes into calvanism, catholic sacraments and other theologically needs or understandings of salvation I tend to get confused. However, I welcome you to flesh it out in a more eloquently manner. I understand and believe the salvation to be deeper than so, and the experience of every man to be more than I just described on a few lines.
Back to my brother. We used being able to talk on these matters when we were younger. We used to smoke weed, talking about the universe, existence and one day we came to the realisation that God in the Bible must be the ultimate truth and reality, that his Son Jesus really came to earth and is our savior. Both extatic we jumped up and wanted to study theology. We wanted to spread the gospel because it seemed so clear before our eyes that God is there, and so commit our lives to Him. Both induced by smoking the weed we went to our fathers house telling him the news. He obviously was in the defence but respectfully and loving listened to our words and went for a walk over midnight. Later we both began our theology studies, and one by one we realised we were both incabable.
My brother now lives with his girlfriend, who openly rejects Christianity and God's existence, sometimes go into mocking the faith. Yet she sometimes seem to encourage why he isn't going to church when I'm on a visit. A sort of apathy seem to be in his life. What once was near to his heart, seem very distant and unimportant. The truth of the gospel, the inner life, the imaginative world of wonder, awe, the longings, hope, faith and love. He sometimes mentions that Jesus died for us, and so he says he is saved. Yet he is saying he also wants to do what he wants to do, having the freedom to smoke weed, partying, basically living his own life. So I can have empathy with him. I struggle myself because of my past with drugs and what that caused for my mental being and later social life of having to suffer from anexiety. I sometimes drink as well. And I don't know what truly is inside of him, I hope I'm totally misrepresenting him and that he seek our Lord in his heart.
I might be rambling at this point, I didn't keep it as short as I planned in the beginning. I just wanted to ask what can I do to help my brother? I really don't want to invade and push him away by making him uncomfortably, but I also want to do all I can to talk to Him. If anyone have some words, I am grateful.
God bless,
Mathias
I don't think I myself have a total understanding or view in which a person is truly saved and right with God. Sometimes the Bible seem to make it so clear and often simple, that by the grace of God we are saved if we believe in his Son Jesus as our lord and savior. That he did everything we could not, so by repentance and being born again in following Jesus, by having a relationship with Him, praying, talking, trusting in his will over our lives. This seem to be somewhat indications of having a genuine faith, from my understanding and point of view. When the talk goes into calvanism, catholic sacraments and other theologically needs or understandings of salvation I tend to get confused. However, I welcome you to flesh it out in a more eloquently manner. I understand and believe the salvation to be deeper than so, and the experience of every man to be more than I just described on a few lines.
Back to my brother. We used being able to talk on these matters when we were younger. We used to smoke weed, talking about the universe, existence and one day we came to the realisation that God in the Bible must be the ultimate truth and reality, that his Son Jesus really came to earth and is our savior. Both extatic we jumped up and wanted to study theology. We wanted to spread the gospel because it seemed so clear before our eyes that God is there, and so commit our lives to Him. Both induced by smoking the weed we went to our fathers house telling him the news. He obviously was in the defence but respectfully and loving listened to our words and went for a walk over midnight. Later we both began our theology studies, and one by one we realised we were both incabable.
My brother now lives with his girlfriend, who openly rejects Christianity and God's existence, sometimes go into mocking the faith. Yet she sometimes seem to encourage why he isn't going to church when I'm on a visit. A sort of apathy seem to be in his life. What once was near to his heart, seem very distant and unimportant. The truth of the gospel, the inner life, the imaginative world of wonder, awe, the longings, hope, faith and love. He sometimes mentions that Jesus died for us, and so he says he is saved. Yet he is saying he also wants to do what he wants to do, having the freedom to smoke weed, partying, basically living his own life. So I can have empathy with him. I struggle myself because of my past with drugs and what that caused for my mental being and later social life of having to suffer from anexiety. I sometimes drink as well. And I don't know what truly is inside of him, I hope I'm totally misrepresenting him and that he seek our Lord in his heart.
I might be rambling at this point, I didn't keep it as short as I planned in the beginning. I just wanted to ask what can I do to help my brother? I really don't want to invade and push him away by making him uncomfortably, but I also want to do all I can to talk to Him. If anyone have some words, I am grateful.
God bless,
Mathias
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I understand your concern and desire for your brother's welfare. My three brothers and 1
