Dialogue with a Muslim

[shazeep]

See how it can play into one's ego to assure them that all they have to do is repeat after you down front, and get baptized, to be "accepted." They then become qualified to, essentially, look down their nose at all the "lost" people, which is--by their own admission (or lack thereof--inability to admit suffices!)--everyone who does not believe like they do.

It draws psychopaths. Which i hesitate to put it that way; psychopaths are rarely like ax murderers or anything, so let's just say the narcissistic ego-bound. It provides them false cover. Not that this happens every time by any means, but it is prevalent. It is also a great way to turn many of the rest, who were seekers after God, into dead people, who think they have found all the truth that they need, and are now just waiting to die and go to heaven, proclaiming "Ha, Glory!" like Fred Sanford's SIL, and "evangelizing" all the way.

So i will repeat a secret, that everyone knows; if you stop looking for sinners to help--which is a reflection of an attitude, a mindset--and focus on the good in someone, and encourage that, sinners will come looking for you. You will literally have to get in a boat and go fishing to get a break. It has been argued to me that pastors have a different, special mandate, but i think that reflects a mindset also, and is most likely self serving yack.