QC and SG accountability (11/10/19)
Following up from Winnie's sharing about one of her former students receiving the Lord but being forbidden to be baptized by her parents, we asked whether it was right for a new believer to "obey God rather than men" (Ac 5:29) and to make a stand for Christ, even at the cost of losing family relationships. After all, this was Jesus' comment: " “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn “‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. (Mt 10:34-36). We said that the intent of not pushing immediately for baptism (or church attendance) should not be fear, but the desire to make our faith winsome to parents so that they too would come to see the goodness of the gospel. There would also be an extended opportunity for younger believers to grow in maturity and to ...