Don’t you love that term?!
It is so encouraging – and makes you want to ‘come back to church’. Wouldn’t at all make you feel like a lost cause or a waste of space!…
I have two friends who are backsliders – lets call them Dick and Dora (not their real names…) Last night Dick and Dora had two other friends round for dinner (lets call them Jack and Jill – also not their real names!) I was invited too – (but you know my name)
As we chatted they spoke of how two of their friends from a large ‘happening’ church were concerned for them as they were backsliding.
What that means is that they weren’t attending church on Sunday. They ‘weren’t in fellowship’ and were therefore in sin.
Dick and Dora are about as far from backsliders as anyone I know!
I was going to write a whole heap more on this but I feel some cynicism stirring and sarcasm rising so I’ll leave it there – point made.