Are you attending a church or are you a Spiritual orphan? If you are a Christian, you need to be in fellowship with other Christians. To not be in fellowship with other Christians is disobedience.
Being part of a local fellowship is an important part of the Christian life; corporate prayer and corporate worship are essential to a complete Christian walk. We are meant to do life together and not be lone ranger Christians.
Covid did change the way we do church. But some people disengaged and are just watching TV churches. They’re not under a pastor and they’re basically spiritual orphans.
So what do you do when you discover that somebody is a spiritual orphan? You can try to bring them into fellowship with your church. If they do not want to come to your church, suggest another church they might be comfortable with.
Suppose a person still doesn’t get involved in a church? Definitely, you should pray for them. But you should not fellowship privately with them. Don’t accompany them to crusades or concerts. If they are not willing to be involved in a local church, you should not provide them any fellowship.
By going to lunch with them, or other churchy events, you are putting a stamp approval on their Christian walk which is disobedience. By continuing to fellowship with them you’re actually making your church look bad. It’s guilt by association.
Cutting someone off, may seem like a mean thing to do but it’s actually biblical. Continue to invite them to your church, but don’t encourage their disobedience because your encouragement won’t help them repent.
I know some spiritual orphans, who I keep inviting to church. I pray for them. I will no longer go to lunch with them though. I won’t go to a concert with them. I won’t go to another type of event either with them once they get out of disobedience then we can restore fellowship.
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