Quoted:
Quoted: He is telling the truth.
When one becomes a Christian, many will become divided against you. I have lost many so called friends, and even some family members who now hate my choice. I love God more than them and it burns them up.
He was not one to sugar coat the truth and preach happy warm fuzzies like many of todays preachers. He told us what to expect and what not to assume. If He were to tell us we will always be in peace and our families and friends would respect our faith and if we followed Him, He would then be a liar.
Jesus shows how to preach, no sugar coating, just the honest truth and what was to be expected if we chose to follow Him. Many people have lost families over their faith.
|
+1.
the very notion of 'one way, and only one way, to come to the Father' was bound to be a virtual sword.
We have seen it act as such here at ARFCOM.
I have lost close real-life friends over my faith - interestingly, all of the real-life friends I have 'lost' claim to be Christians - in a very shallow sense of the word.
As always, Jesus meant exactly what He said.
|
You must be doing something wrong,cause you can't lose what you never had!!
If they were real friends they wouldn't have left you because of your beliefs!!!
Maybe you just kept pounding on them like you do here,maybe they just got tired of hearing scripture verses actions(do you live the christian life?)
Don't really know you or how you live your real-time life,so am just throwing out suggestions of how you might wittness better!!!
Any body ever come up to you and say hey I really like your attitude,the way you are allways there to help anybody anytime?
Just how do you find time to be so helpful to everyone in the community?
And then you say I owe it all to Christ!! Then YADDA YADDA!
Is that the way it's supposed to work?
Bob