A lost brother




You know that place in the B that says you shouldn't have fship with an brother who has turned away from the fth? I always thought that verse was kind of rude, and not Js' heart. I thought at most that it was an option for us... that it might help that unbeliever if they realized that they were cut off from Xn fship, and they might realize what they had lost and wake up to their sin. But anyway it was a choice that we Xns had to do or not do...

now i am wondering more if you CANT have fellowship with a such brother because it is impossible to. Once you have shared the deepest things in life, how can you go back to have a surface level relationship? that is so unsatisfying. And if you try to have a deep relationship, the Xn can't help but speak and think and share about what Js is doing. I mean we as Xns hide our lives in Chst, if i talk about myself, it will be about chst. And a brother who doesn't want to hear about Chst anymore, well how can they hear about me then? And when they share whats going in their lives, it only hurts more, because you remember how they once too, were walking in fth.

I don't think anymore that this is a choice paul is giving to us, but rahter an observation... once a Xn has turned away and doesn't want anything more to do with fth, well it is almost impossible to have any kind of a friendship with that person.