"Not with my Parents"

Okay.

There are de-churched adult children who want to go back to God, 

but simply don’t want to be horsewhipped about how this or that religious thing should be done,

             and how Bible reading should be done and blah-blah-blah...

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I get it - It happens. 

A parent of a de-churched adult can be like a huge vacuum machine, 

waiting to suck their children back into the same old way things used to be. 

And that’s part of the problem.

Everyone needs to find their own way to the real Jesus (who has concrete expectations of us). 

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While it's one thing to express concern for your adult children in all segments of their lives, 

we should let our adult children go to God in their own place and time and style, knowing that you are ready to help if they ask. 

You have to do this anyway. 

Otherwise, they may wait until you are dead to go back to church, if at all.

Which means your grandchildren will miss their prime opportunity to meet Christ.

Let them choose and attend a church alone if they wish.  

I not saying to never say anything, but let go of the fact that you feel guilty for having them in the first place, 

because they have left Christ and put themselves in danger. 

And this happens; parents often feel guilty for bearing a child that grows up to reject God and church.

God designed us with free wills so we would be able to love. But free will also makes us capable of turning away from God. 

Being descendants of Adam and Eve, we are each born with a sin nature that must be conquered, or we will each perish. 

As painful as this truth may be, our adult children must chart their own eternal destiny. 

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