Christian Persecution

[Biff]

After raising our children up in a Christian household, teaching and following His precepts, they wanted nothing more to do with us.
Were we too tough on them? you might ask. Absolutely not!
My wife and I have been rejected by her family and her grown children because of our faith in Jesus Christ.
We'd like to know if there are others out there who understand our sorrow?

Biff & Suzanne

Luke 12:51-53 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

 

[BrokHomz]

some people who claimed to be my friends hate me and lose respect for me becuase of my stand for Jesus... i know tha feeling WELL now!

 

[LovesTruth]

Perhaps they confuse religion with a personal relationship with Christ. Did your children ever choose to become Christians?

Mine made that choice. The older boy especially struggles with theological issues (like dad!) and unlike dad he doesn't know what to believe. My wife and I are at peace with his spiritual journey and eventual outcome.

Remember the present is not the future. God can and will allow circumstances to come into a child's life to lead him/her back to faith. Be at peace. You have done far better than you suppose.

 

[Biff]

Hang in there BrokHomz.
Thanks for all your replies.

Did your children ever choose to become Christians?

Yes to all three! READ MATTHEW 13:20-22. It's where I'm coming from where 2 or all 3 of them is concerned.

However, one of them has never turned from her uncanny and numerous deceitful ways and has disowned her own mother because she told her (when she found out) to please not allow her 14 year old son to go and live with his homosexual uncle and his lover for at least one unsupervised week.

The other KNOWS, and upon going to a Christian college for a year has re-decided afterwards to continue as an active homosexual (this is the boys uncle).

(For these two, your beliefs and mine are completely different concerning some future salvation for them. I see no hope - ever!)

As for the other, she is the one who drove the 14 year old to her homosexuals brother's house and then left. She has always been defiant, unrepentant and causes much grief. There may be hope for her yet. I doubt it - but I don't know!

Remember the present is not the future. God can and will allow circumstances to come into a child's life to lead him/her back to faith.

Except for the third child, I don't believe that the other two were ever of the faith, even though they "pretended" for awhile that they were.

Thanks again for your replies.

 

[Valentine]

Praying for your family and concerns, Biff.

 

[LovesTruth]

Celebrate the love and wonderful Person of Jesus Christ.

He is God and perfect man. Let us praise Him and rejoice in His ultimate victory over the evil one.

 

[crusadernoel]

This is something I have experienced many a time.

The main example is the rift that my religion has caused in my marriaged.

I married my wife Margaret before I found Jesus.

Upon being saved I studied the Bible voraciously and found that Margaret, quite an outspoken woman always nagging me and telling me what to do, was going against God's will and that I would need to educate her in behaving more appropriately.

When I showed her this quote, Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord(Colossians 3:18) and said that we would have to remedy her behaviour through counselling with our priest, she went mad and left me.

As much as I love her, I would choose Jesus over her any day.

 

[RealityCheck]

I'm not surprised at all that she left. I would have too.

 

[JulySheMustFly]

I'm really disheartended by many of these posts so far. It is not up to us to determine when or who will commit their lives to Christ and follow his ways. God is the ONLY one who can move a person toward opening their heart. What we can do and what we must do is have hope. With God there is always hope. To give up on that hope is to give up on loving those who have not commited to Christ. It is not for us to discern if faith is real but to nurture it with love and gentle guidance.

I pray for yours and other families who are torn apart by issues of faith.

 

[RealityCheck]

It is not for us to discern if faith is real but to nurture it with love and gentle guidance.

Truth.

Yet all too frequently, in CF and in churches, this is exactly what people do - pass judgment on whether or not someone is really of the faith or not. And the criteria on which this judgment is made is always external - material and temporal.