If our families are not born again then we as born again believers have no connection with them. They are not our real family. We do pray for them as we would any lost soul who needs salvation, but they cannot take priority over Jesus Christ in our lives. Unsaved family members will work to diminish our walk with Christ. They will not agree on most things, they do not think the way we think.
Those who have been born again think nearly the opposite of those who have not been transformed into a new creation by Christ. How we process information as a born again believer often aggravates and angers the unregenerate soul.
We wish our families would trust Christ and come with us on this narrow path, but until they do, they cannot be a huge part of our lives.
Luke 14:25-34
Discipleship Tested
25 Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
33 So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
34 “Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?"
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