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Originally Posted by Amanah
There was a young woman who was raised in church and had lots of friends on Facebook. She backslid and posted pics of herself and friends having drinks and posting other things that were unacceptable.
Prior Pastor had to comment from pulpit "when people make posts depicting their backslid lifestyle, don't like their posts on Facebook please."
We are living in an environment where nothing is private and people don't know how to deal with it. Worldly lifestyles are flaunted without shame.
So to answer the question, to start off with, don't like their posts on Facebook.
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We have had similar situations at my home church.
For example, this young lady started frequenting our church a little over a year ago. She had been raised in the Apostolic way, but had backslidden and her home/family had in some ways outcast her. She didn't feel welcome there, so she came to church with us when she felt the conviction to change. (Her mother has been a part of our church for a couple of years, and we all knew this young lady.)
She prayed back through to the Holy Ghost at one of our sister churches, and she was back in the church for several months, maybe six or so. It wasn't long, however, that the "new" wore off (for the lack of better phrasing) and she gradually drifted away.
Since then, she's been "in the church" a couple other times. She comes when she's broken and been hurt by the world, prays back through, and then gradually gets distracted and drifts off. We've all tried to reach a hand and encourage her, but once she's not interested, she's simply that: she's not interested. She cuts off contact, more or less, and reverts to circling with her friends outside of the faith.
And that's only to be expected. She wouldn't want anything to do with her church friends when she's not living the life.
I worry for her because she knows this Truth and she's lived it, but she's deliberately deciding not to live it. Right now she's going to a church that she previously said she knew wasn't right and worried about her father and stepmother going to. She posts pictures on social media as if trying to advertise her choice to backslide, and I know some of us have expressed our sorrows for this.
It's an awful thing when people backslide from this Truth and know better. They know entirely too much to die lost. And it's sad.
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