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Preaching to my family (i hope its the right forum to post this).

j4jh

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I am the youngest in my family. I am the only one who have full belife in God and the only one who know and been saved by Christ. In the last couple of years.. in some holidays i preach to my family (not about jesus yet). i tell all i know on the happening and events and stuff of the bible related to that holiday... and sometimes i try to drip some stuff related to john the baptist and some other important figures in the time of Jesus. i want to become older in 3-4 years and declare that i am happy Christian in belife and saved by christ (i told my parents that 2 years ago while i tried to convince them to send me to a community of messianic jews in other city). my parents really opposed that and said if you want to go: than pay urself for a cab and go alone (which means even you do so we wont let you go).. they knew i was intersted in christianity for quite a while and they knew i read the NT on my computer (which i tell the story of how i even find it and why i started to read it in my testimony if ill post it and i think my trial isnt over yet). yet i want to ready my family to accept christ as their saviour.. and i want to preach to them (my mom is the 1st one to listen she is very intersted in bible but she dont know enough the old toungue of the bible to read for herself).
am i doing it okay? someone have any tips to how to preach?
usually my family listens to me or atleast pretend they do. i really want to declare as christian at my adult stage (18) cuz now i have my own belife which i can own but my paretns can deny me any kind of practicing of christianity and they alrdy did so.. and i have my own john gospel which i got from missionaries who came to our city when i read it my family was really feard i wont stay jewish or i might get kidnapped (they think its some kind of cult which there are some christian looking like cults who kidnap people to out of the country sometimes). now i pray when i can (cant lock the door) and now sometimes also perform the eucharist on my own (try to hide it if i can). so really any tips shares or anything that might help. (i really dun want to hurt them and make them ready for the preaching about my lord). (by the way one of my relative read some prophecies and their proofs in jesus and read some of "John" but not open mind and denyied it and said it dsnt have any logic in it or its something false.. but anyway he dun really care much of god exist or not cuz he think if he really does he probably dun much care about things here on earth)..
anyway i talked to much (but hey its talk JESUS <and that is what i want to do!>) so please any help will do.
 
I'm glad you shared your plight openly with your brothers and sisters in Christ. You have my support and prayers.

Your friend,
Dreamer
 
j4jh
It is good that you want your family to be saved. The best way to encourage family members is to love them and be a witness for Christ, in the way you act and speak. If you have shared with them the Gospel and they do not want to know, then just stand back for a while and allow the Lord do His work. If we are preachy and pushy, it can turn people off. We cannot make anyone accept Christ. We can pray for the salvation of our loved ones, and continue to trust God. He knows our hearts and hears our prayers.

God Bless you
:shade: Calluna
 
Thanks to both of you. But i am not pushy. actually its a tradition that the head of the family need to tell the idea of the holiday. and i am the only one who is capable though i am not the head of the family. and my family like it somewhat that i tell them. (espcialy my mom). but i want also to soft them a bit until ill be old enough (18) to decide on my own how to live and be free from the deny's of my family. i want them to take it easy and also might think more clearly about the meaning of my belifes.
Thanks again!
 
Thanks for explaining some more. I can see the difficulty you are in, just be patient and continue praying and trusting the Lord will take care of your needs.
Prov 3:5 'Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding'
I will pray for you and your family.

:shade: Calluna
 
Is your family Jewish? It seemed to me in another post that it may have been indicated as such.

Can you obtain the Gospel according to Matthew in your families first language? That Gospel was written mainly to a Jewish audience. I want to say more, and I will definitely ponder the issue as I do have some resources for preaching Christ to Jews, but it is pretty late. Tonight I just wanted to get the ball rolling on posting on this forum, but I need to pray and think more, and then hopefully I can be of at least some help. I will continue to pray for your families situation. I have to think that God almighty elected you for a reason, and hopefully that reason is to preach and save your entire family. You will certainly be in my prayers and thoughts.
 
Yes we are jews. My brother once had a small book with some main parts from Matthew in hebrew. i have no way to get that in hebrew (the gospel) or any others (except to print them but dun have enough money to buy that amount of ink and papers) or just copy it word by word. but i guess i can try to work hard and copy it hopefully with good hand write.. but i have also john in hebrew copy (the only part i have here).
thanks.
(and i'll wait to the continue of your words).
 
Yes we are jews. My brother once had a small book with some main parts from Matthew in hebrew. i have no way to get that in hebrew (the gospel) or any others (except to print them but dun have enough money to buy that amount of ink and papers) or just copy it word by word. but i guess i can try to work hard and copy it hopefully with good hand write.. but i have also john in hebrew copy (the only part i have here).
thanks.
(and i'll wait to the continue of your words).

Sorry I couldn't post them here, but I sent some links in a PM ;)
 
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