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 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:15 am
I'm worried that my sister is following the wrong crowd.
She goes into these techno cubes with her friends.
She wears black and I think she hangs out with satanics because I saw a picture with on of the girls she hangs out with the symbol (the one with the star in a circle. I don't know what it's called) and another with a girl with an eye on her forehead.
Not only that but she draws dark things.
My sister never goes to church.
Once, I begged in tears for her to church at least once.
She never did.
I think that my sister doesn't even believes in God. She never had any interest.
I've prayed to God to change her heart and ways, but she's becoming worse.
I've tried to conceive her.
Nothing. I don't know what to do.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:17 pm
Ultimately, you can pray for your sister, and you can love her, but only God can truely intervene. I know it's hard, but try to relax a bit. Pray for her every day to God, but try your best not to get upset in front of her about it. Let her know that she can come to church with you if she likes, and that you're fine with her walking her own path.
I think the only concerning thing is her disregard of church. Everything else a lot of pretty nice Christians do. The symbol is a pentagram, and things like this are often worn because of fashion. The Cross is often worn for fashion. People rarley think about the torture and death the Cross actually represents. The pentagram looks snazzy too, but it obviously carries non-Christian connotations. I really wouldn't stress about the wearing black thing. Plenty of mint Christians are total goths, and they're great to hang around with.
Something that might be useful to keep in mind is that churches don't often provide for anyone outside of the biscuit-cut model of a Christain. There is a lot of critism of this in the world, and it is entirely true. A lot of Christians don't welcome the 'freaks' of socirty as Jesus+ did, and this image is projected onto every Christian. ChristianGoth is a really nice sight that offers some insight into this, if you are not subject to it yourself. This supposed rejection of certain groups of people by Christianity is, of course, un-Christain, and causes a lot of bad feelings for the victims. We all forget to reach out to others a lot of the time, whereas all of us had to reached out to ourselves. I hope you will touch your sister's heart, and God will too. He calls us in very, very strange ways sometimes. A friend of mine went to a church because he was bored once, and was totally captured by the people there and their stories of addiction and redemption. I only started to take interest in church to appease my grandmother one day, a day when we happened to go see the most amazing Priest I have ever met.
So, what I'm saying, very messily, is that I will join you in prayer, and God will care for your sister. And that maybe she just hasn't seen Christianity from the right angle for her, yet. Perhaps she just needs to have a particular experince, an experience God will undoubtabley provide.
"But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!" Habacuc 2:1,3
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