![]() ![]() ![]() Four years of this and I was strung out, stupefied and generally pretty low. But really I just wanted to drink gallons of cheap sangria and sleep around. At first I pretended that my reasoning was high-minded and philosophical. When I was 19, I decided I’d be honest and stop pretending I was a christian. The following is Abraham’s account written for Decision Magazine. He wept his eyes out in front of the church and was restored. He came back to the Lord four years later and the church had a beautiful, beautiful restoration service. We were praying like crazy that he wouldn’t get somebody pregnant, or marry the wrong person, or whatever. I respect you for doing it.” From then on, for the next four years, he was walking away from the Lord, trying to make a name for himself in disco bars as a guitarist and singer, and just doing anything but destroying himself. The night after that excommunication, I called him at 10:00 and said, “Abraham, you knew what was coming.” He said, “That’s what I expected you to do. In a recent Christianity Today interview, John Piper recounts the painful events surrounding the excommunication of his 19 year old son, Abraham. ![]() This article comes from First Boynton Church. ![]()
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