Yes I kept thinking about Luke 15:1-7 in relation to this story. If she does transition into a Christian influencer and makes money doing that, that’s great! As long as she says that sex work is a sin I’m all for it. If she were to start saying that sexual immorality isn’t really a sin, then we should reject her. And there are many such Christians. I’ve had people argue with me that a long list of sexual sins weren’t sins because Jesus didn’t explicitly list all of them. But it sounds like she is not doing that at all, so we should rejoice.
It never ceases to amaze me how often Christians either shoot their wounded or reject the repentant. I’ve wondered for a long time exactly WHY much modern Christianity is this way. Untimely it’s evidence of a profound lack of spiritual depth. Churches are often culpable, as it’s become normal to preach shallow, silly messages. Individuals, too, bear the burden of training for godliness (as Paul calls it).
I pray God had truly called this woman to Himself and that He molds her more and more into the image of Christ.
Does everyone forget the story of the Prodigal son? He went off and partied and then went downhill to the point he was "eating with the pigs", and then he remembered that at home, even the servants lived better, so went home (repented) to be celebrated. Same thing.
That can be the hardest thing for people coming back from, alcoholism, drugs, etc, etc. Is, they make the change, a REAL change of heart, and are working to do better and live their new lives, and everyone they knew before keeps telling them how bad they are, and that they'll never be good enough, and that they'll just backslide because that is who they are. And instead, they should be encouraging and supporting them as best as they can in this new life, which is a hard life, even if you never slipped to the depths before.
We are supposed to forgive. Now that doesn't mean let ourselves be taken advantage of, but it does mean not giving a verbal beat down to someone trying to do better. On the average, someone trying to come back from an addiction, or someone trying to leave an abusive situation, will fail 5-7 times before being able to overcome that. With more support from the get-go, I wonder how many fewer failures they would have to go through?
The modern Christian has a habit of wanting to pick their favorite commandments to follow, and ignore the rest as not applying to them. But, if you really look at the 2 great commandments, everything else falls under them.
Love the Lord they God with all thy heart, mind and spirit - If you did that, you would try to never do anything to offend or hurt Him - because you don't do that to people you love.
Love they neighbor as thyself - a two-parter. You need to love yourself, and that means not doing things that harm you. No negative self-talk, no using drugs or alcohol or other substances that cause you damage, no over eating or over exercising, not staying in bad relationship where you are not treated as a child of God.
And not treating other people with any of those negative situations, either.
We would protect the children, and those weaker than ourselves, and train and guide them to be better people, as is possible. And we would correct and give the right discipline along with love, to those who are learning the lessons of being a better person. Because we certainly aren't born knowing how to be a better person.
Those 2 things cover everything - No murder, no envy, no sloth, no disrespecting your parents (or your children), no stealing, no lying and so on. One day we will live in that world...practicing now would make it much easier on us.
Yes, we usually see the negative in someone else that we are afraid of in ourselves. So, that should be something we are working to overcome.
Yes I kept thinking about Luke 15:1-7 in relation to this story. If she does transition into a Christian influencer and makes money doing that, that’s great! As long as she says that sex work is a sin I’m all for it. If she were to start saying that sexual immorality isn’t really a sin, then we should reject her. And there are many such Christians. I’ve had people argue with me that a long list of sexual sins weren’t sins because Jesus didn’t explicitly list all of them. But it sounds like she is not doing that at all, so we should rejoice.
It never ceases to amaze me how often Christians either shoot their wounded or reject the repentant. I’ve wondered for a long time exactly WHY much modern Christianity is this way. Untimely it’s evidence of a profound lack of spiritual depth. Churches are often culpable, as it’s become normal to preach shallow, silly messages. Individuals, too, bear the burden of training for godliness (as Paul calls it).
I pray God had truly called this woman to Himself and that He molds her more and more into the image of Christ.
Does everyone forget the story of the Prodigal son? He went off and partied and then went downhill to the point he was "eating with the pigs", and then he remembered that at home, even the servants lived better, so went home (repented) to be celebrated. Same thing.
That can be the hardest thing for people coming back from, alcoholism, drugs, etc, etc. Is, they make the change, a REAL change of heart, and are working to do better and live their new lives, and everyone they knew before keeps telling them how bad they are, and that they'll never be good enough, and that they'll just backslide because that is who they are. And instead, they should be encouraging and supporting them as best as they can in this new life, which is a hard life, even if you never slipped to the depths before.
We are supposed to forgive. Now that doesn't mean let ourselves be taken advantage of, but it does mean not giving a verbal beat down to someone trying to do better. On the average, someone trying to come back from an addiction, or someone trying to leave an abusive situation, will fail 5-7 times before being able to overcome that. With more support from the get-go, I wonder how many fewer failures they would have to go through?
The modern Christian has a habit of wanting to pick their favorite commandments to follow, and ignore the rest as not applying to them. But, if you really look at the 2 great commandments, everything else falls under them.
Love the Lord they God with all thy heart, mind and spirit - If you did that, you would try to never do anything to offend or hurt Him - because you don't do that to people you love.
Love they neighbor as thyself - a two-parter. You need to love yourself, and that means not doing things that harm you. No negative self-talk, no using drugs or alcohol or other substances that cause you damage, no over eating or over exercising, not staying in bad relationship where you are not treated as a child of God.
And not treating other people with any of those negative situations, either.
We would protect the children, and those weaker than ourselves, and train and guide them to be better people, as is possible. And we would correct and give the right discipline along with love, to those who are learning the lessons of being a better person. Because we certainly aren't born knowing how to be a better person.
Those 2 things cover everything - No murder, no envy, no sloth, no disrespecting your parents (or your children), no stealing, no lying and so on. One day we will live in that world...practicing now would make it much easier on us.
Yes, we usually see the negative in someone else that we are afraid of in ourselves. So, that should be something we are working to overcome.