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That's a sad fear to have. It puts you in a very powerless position. See, you don't have any control over "coming to the Lord" in any case but your own. Such overweening concern over other people's spiritual choices puts your peace of mind into other people's hands, and that's never a good place for it to be.Puddle Jumper said:What am I afraid of? I'm afraid of people I love never coming to the Lord. That's what I'm afraid of.
(Incidentally, this fear you describe is the same one that has prompted many self-described Christians into all sorts of ugly end-justifies-means behavior concerning how they try to make others "come to the Lord.")
It seems to me that there are Bible verses in which people who had too much concern over how others lived/prayed/worked were admonished by Jesus to focus instead on their own relationships with God. But I do not have a Bible in front of me at the moment, and I rarely have much luck with online Bible searches.