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Eli
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| Posted 7/17/2003 2:49 PM (GMT -6) |   | 1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Can someone put this into context for me? It seems like it's saying 1. that your spouse is affected by you being saved and 2. your children are. Now, you can only be saved through Jesus, and everyone has to come to that choice on their own... so what is this saying?
"...it is fools, they say, who learn by experience. But since they do at least learn, let a fool bring his experience into the common stock that wiser men may profit by it." -C.S. Lewis
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Blood Washed Heretic
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| Posted 7/18/2003 4:38 AM (GMT -6) | | This isn't based on any exegetical work at all, but I suspect that Paul is realizing the incredible impact a believer can have on their unbelieving family. One of the most fruitful mission fields in the American church is non-believing husbands being witnessed to by Christian wives.
This doesn't mean that good Christian girls should go out looking for bad boys to "convert", the dangers in that are all too apparent. But women who come to Christ after marriage need to be intentionally equipped to evangelize unbelieving spouses and children. When pro wrestler and notorious "bad boy" Shawn Michaels was asked what brought him to Christ, his answer was simple:
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