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Originally Posted by Ohio
When I first met you, about ten years ago or so, I got the impression that you were just another lazy, know-it-all, yet very smart, 2nd generation church kid who lived off the many entitlements passed down from his parents. I am actually happy, very happy, to see you digging into the Word on your own. (And so excited to hear that your brother Paul has married.)
For many years your dear brother Paul prayed for you. I actually prayed together with him for you! He always believed that you would have a sober turn to the Lord, and prayed persistently for you. Though he was a brilliant guy, I was always impressed with his simple love for the Lord Jesus, and his love for all the brothers and sisters. Though he was in a demanding grad school, with an exhausting schedule for sure, I never got the impression that he was under a "heavy" load. Instead, he seemed to have all the time in the world for others. At times, I honestly marveled at his love and service.
I think you owe your brother a lot. For you to critique his faith, his beliefs, or his service is not pleasing to our Heavenly Father. But that is just my opinion.
God bless you!
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That's amazing you guys prayed for me thank you! Interesting how things can come full circle. God is good. And thank you for telling me that. I need to be more thankful to him.
Sorry I didn't mean to critique my brother's faith because I would probably do the same in his shoes. I mean it's really hard to go against your wife. I would never have left LC if my wife wasn't on board-- she was also die hard LC. Actually I did a crazy prayer asking God to open the door through my wife so we could both decide to leave together and God miraculously answered our prayer! I found out later her brother was also praying for us to leave. I can describe this later.
The problem with the internet is you can't gauge my tone of voice when you read the text. I still love my brother and we continue to meet up a lot.
I will do more to lift my brother and his wife in prayer because our warfare is spiritual and not in the physical realm, because I said all I could to him. Though it's not like you can't get to heaven in the LC, my worry is just about people yielding to temptation under free grace.
I see the destruction of this doctrine in my relatives and family right now. In the past I told my Dad, you gotta make sure your brothers (my uncles) are walking in the faith! And he told me "yea I tell them to go to the meetings but they don't. that's okay because they believed in Jesus 20 years ago!" and just left it at that. Now that he knows their salvation is at stake I'm sure now we can work together to encourage our relatives to live according to their faith.