Almost every Tuesday I post something concerning my Tuesday morning bible study and this Tuesday isn't any different. The man who was scheduled to lead us today was ill due to a tick bite and is recovering under a doctors care. The man who ended up leading the study spoke about family and how if a family isn't Christ centered it's bound to be dysfunctional. Someone else spoke up and brought up a scripture. Luke 12: 49 " I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished! 51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
The gospel is an offense to a lot of people and it's certainly evident in many families. Plenty of people have raised their children in the church yet those children do everything they can to deny and renounce any teaching they've been given. Some people get married as non-believers and one will come to Christ and the other won't. Whatever the scenario, there are always struggles going on in families where some believe and some don't. The non-believers want to call the believers judgmental or hypocritical but I believe that it's because they are, in a lot of cases, living a life of sin and that it's their defense or justification of that sinful lifestyle. We believers want nothing more than to make our loved ones believe in God and that Jesus is His son who died on a cross and rose from the grave insuring all who believe and are baptized eternal life in heaven.
You can't shake someone until they believe, you also can't sit there idly and do nothing. There lays the conflict, whatever we do we're wrong in somebodies eyes. If we keep presenting the gospel of Christ to our loved ones we will, without a doubt, find ourselves on the receiving end of their anger. But, if we don't try to evangelize our families we will certainly anger, or more to the point, let down our Lord.
I guess I know what my options are and that I can only choose to follow the Lord Jesus at any and every cost.
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