Susan-
PW, I’m a PK, and can so relate. How did we miss the main message?
pastor's wife -
I think a big part of it is that Scriptures aren’t really clear on children raised in Christian homes. The Bible shows people as adults who didn’t know Christ who turned to Christ.
Also a lot of preachers and even our own parents didn’t come to saving knowledge of Christ until they were adults. They preached what they knew: “I was involved in a life of sin and rebellion, but I’ll never forget the day I asked the Lord to forgive my sins. My life has changed 100% since that time!” But if you’re a child raised by Christian parents, 1) you’ve never been allowed to live a life of desperate sin, and the sins of complaining, laziness, etc. are ones that keep recurring after salvation, so your life doesn’t have that complete transformation that the evangelists tout and 2) you’ve heard the Gospel message 100,000 times so it’s hard to tell which time was the exact moment you REALLY trusted.
People who grew up in a Biblically-illiterate home and made a decision later in life (a teen or adult) just do not understand the desperate longing and confusion we children had because our testimonies were simple and nondramatic.
K. Ayato (post: 1460645) wrote:I feel sometimes we forget to realize that evangelism is a gift (see Romans 12). Some Believers have it, some don't.
mechana2015 (post: 1461399) wrote:Yeah but that action isn't going to take shape of the stereotypical dictionary defined preacher enforced model of 'evangelism' necessarily.
mechana2015 (post: 1461411) wrote:Because dictionaries provide social context history and background for words so we can all discuss things on the same page and with the same idea in mind rather than having people essentially saying 'pie squid computer free and if but when' and claiming that it means 'you're my best friend'. Words become little more than gibberish if the definitions being used by two people vary drastically.
Return to Testimonies & Spiritual Growth
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 29 guests