Featured If We Fail to witness, will their blood be on "our heads?"

I do not know the answer to the question posed in the OP, but I do think (I know of no Scripture to back it up) that there are times that the answer may be yes.

About twenty years ago I felt a compelling, undeniable conviction that I needed to speak about my faith with a friend of mine. Soon. I spent an evening with him, discussing the spiritual and eternal.

Within a year he died in a plane crash.

I don't know for certain his spiritual state, though I have my suspicions. I do know that had I not obeyed the prompting I had, I would have some form of guilt.

 

Arbo, I think your post here is the closet I have seen to my actual beliefs.

Too many times, Christians try to witness to people whose hearts have not been opened to the gospel by the HS. In those cases alot of damage can be done to the person's future conversion, by driving them further away instead of closer to God.

I believe our true witness is in how we live our lives and how we represent the gospel by our actions...not our words. Most ogf the times that I was able to help lead a person to the Lord was when they came to me and asked about my life, and what was different about me.

If our lives are a good witness for God, then God will lead us to oppurtunities to give verbal witness to the gospel.

And if we reserve our verbal witness for the ones that the HS has opened up to recieve it, then we will be much more effective in our witnessing.

I am not saying that we should not preach out of season, as well as in season, I am just saying that trying to convict a unwilling person's heart is wrong because that is the job of the HS.

The HS will compel us when the time is right.

John

 

Definitely agree! We are responsible to do what the Holy Spirit leads us to do. The hearts of people are out of our reach, and are too much for us to tackle. (I would say here that parents need to ponder this.) You are Not the holy Spirit.

If either of these are true of you I want to make sure to treat you Very nicely, Friend.

If every OP has to be relevant to a Calvinist Most of us need to go to some other place!(This is said in jest, just in case it was taken seriously.)

You did what Jesus said He did. He said and did what He heard and saw the Father doing. Nice post. Good questions. Good discussion. All done respectfully.

 

Witness;
warn another about the judgement and how to excape it

Question
2;
All dsiobediance is willfull and the consequences are here and now depending on what the disobediance is.

 

The OP was posted by a Calvinist, which makes me wonder if he was serious or not.

On the one hand he says that man is totally depraved and that salvation is totally up to God's discretion, and on the other hand he starts a thread about people being held responsible for the salvation of others in that if we dont witness to them and they die lost, then their blood is on our hands.

So my question to JesusFan is.....how can this be?

It appears to me that if man is totally depraved, and and an individual dies lost, then it is because God did not grant that person saving Grace. Therefore by your own logic, the lost person's blood is on God's hands.

If I cant seek God on my own, then how can I convince my neighbor to seek God? And why would his damnation be my responsibility?

John

 

Seekingthetruth
If I say something , I say something.You can ask me if you want, rather than putting toward some 3rd party that I may be a liar. Totally unnecessary!!!

 

I was in no way insinuating you were a liar, goodness no!!!

I was simply explaining why I questioned the reasoning of a Calvinist putting the responsibility of salvation of others on my haed.

It is JesusFan's OP that I question, not you. You simply asked how this got turned into a Cal/non-Cal issues, and I was explaining.

I still say that the OP makes no sense from a Cal point of view, and since the poster is a Cal, it makes me wonder what his intentions are here. But I meant no disrespect toward you.

John

 

My apologies. Me thinks I jumbled the posts somehow. Thank you for your patience with me in this matter.