A hypothetical

[DarkProphet]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

 

[ReformedChapin]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

No one would pressure me considering my faith is based on intellectual pressupositions. Also a good portion of my family isn't saved and there isn't any pressure just a lot of prayer.

 

[Tishri1]

Can I ask if you would consider letting me add love in there? Because I was mulling around your question in my head, and for the life of me I couldnt say I pressure people or feel pressured either...

So I had to ask what does motivate me to speak up for the Gospel and share this even alittle expressively at times in peoples lives?

It's purely out of love......

 

[Rafael]

Jesus didn't teach pressure, so it should not exist, letting our yes be yes and no mean no.
I know that some religions and cults are dangerous to break away from, even to the point of violence and death, but that is not supposed to be part of a true believes life that follows after Jesus who is God in flesh and Spirit.
Only sin could twist true love into something negative.

 

[Catherineanne]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

My family is completely indifferent to everything about me, including my faith. I have some good friends who would be concerned, but they would not fear for my soul, because we none of us believe in a God of petty vengeance.

If any of these friends found they could not sustain their faith any more, I would support them through it, partly by reminding them that God's love is not dependent on their belief, and that if I can understand what they are going through, he certainly can.

God accepts us every day where we are, for who we are. We can do no less for one another, if we follow his example.

 

[£amb]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react?

My family probably wouldn't understand and be disappointed. They wouldn't throw me out of the will or anything like that...

Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

It wouldn't pressure me, but to re-examine my life and what I do believe. I'm sure I'd have doubts about everything..."why'd I leave, why do I believe this now". Things like that.

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

This is something I'm familiar with. And no, I wouldn't pressure them. There's nothing to be gained by riding their backs about it. The only thing I can do is pray and to continue living my life for God. But there may be things that I will not do with them if it goes against what I believe. I may be their friend, but that doesn't mean I follow them like a puppy.

 

[BigNorsk]

But we can't pressure someone into being a Christian. It just doesn't work that way. We might pressure someone into doing the outward things that would make it appear they are a Christian but that isn't. But that's just it. Doing outward things do not make a Christian.

If someone near me came out and said they are not a Christian, they probably never have been a Christian, they just tried to look like one in order to try and fit in.

There would be no reason to punish them or anything like that, they would simply be letting their outside reflect their inside.

Biggest difficulty in talking would be to try and get them to realize that what they were doing before wasn't being a Christian. If it had been, they would have enjoyed it for it would have been what they wanted to do.

If you talk to people who have come out, what you generally find is that it was all just a series of works to them that they did not enjoy indeed that they found to be a terrible burden. They just never did have that relationship with Jesus. Thing is, that's what they think being a Christian is, so they completely miss that Christians are not doing what they don't want to do, Christians are doing what they want to do with a bunch of nonchristians mixed in who find it all a great imposition.

At least once the person is honest about it, it brings it all out in the open and everyone doesn't need to pretend anymore that a nonbeliever is a Christian.

Marv

 

[Deren]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

Sorry, but your question doesn't make sense from a biblical perspective, which equates physical birth to spiritual birth. And just as it is impossible for anyone to lose their identity as physically born human beings to their biological parents, it is equally impossible for anyone who has been truly born of God to lose their spiritual identity. So, people's faith may become calloused or wane, but their spiritual identity does not change, if God has truly bore them.

 

[Key]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

Well my family was cool with the not being a Christian, it was what I replaced Christianity with, that might un-nerve them.

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

Your Faith, Your choice, You have to come to God of your own accord, you can not be dragged there.

God Bless

Key

 

[MelissaShae]

Suppose for the sake of this question that you lost your faith and were no longer a Christian. How do you think your family would react? Would you feel pressure to remain a Christian?

What about the reverse question? How would you feel if someone close to you came out as a non-Christian? Would you try to pressure that person to become a Christian again?

My family would not like it and would pray for me and would be very disappointed and devestated. I don't think that my parents would pressure me in any way but they would tell me what being a non-christian meant and that they don't approve.

I would never pressure someone to become a Christian, but I would talk with them about their decision and I would gently try to lead them back to the Lord. I would also pray for them.

 

[Tishri1]

Only sin could twist true love into something negative.

if I can understand what they are going through, he certainly can.

reps coming.....