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So you’re a Christian. Most likely, you have people around you: in your family, at your workplace, at your neighborhood, who are non-Christian yet. Now here’s a dilemma. You want to hang out with these people. With all your good motives, you want to win them for the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy as you are faced and challenged with compromising your faith. We read from the Bible that Jesus was around sitting, eating, and talking with sinners. Has he set a boundary for us to follow? What is the best way to handle this? Watch this video of Dr. Charles Stanley answering this very important question of our Christian faith.

Can I Hang Out with Unbelievers?

He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will be destroyed. – Proverbs 13:20

The righteous should choose his friends carefully,
For the way of the wicked leads them astray. – Proverbs 12:26

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?And what communion has light with darkness? – 2 Cor 6:14

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We often read or hear people say “pray for the soul of so and so that he/she may rest in peace.” Can we do it really? Is there such thing as praying for the dead so his/her soul will go to heaven? Would this be false hope given that God give us free will to choose to follow Him or not while we are alive?

Dr Charles Stanley discusses this burning question based on the Bible. Pay attention to this clip because this a matter of life and death.

Charles Stanley: Should We Pray for the Dead

The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31 NIV
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Should We Pray for the Dead

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Can I Hang Out with Unbelievers and be a Good Witness of Christ?

Can I Hang Out with Unbelievers?

Should We Pray for the Dead?

Charles Stanley: Should We Pray for the Dead

The Rich Man and Lazarus