No Pizza For You Before Bed!

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Well...

Go ahead...

[coksiw]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

It is tough, when someone you know gets all excited about tapes, books, vids, and wants you to view them. But the upside is this, you do it to help them. They are excited about their findings. You just don't want to pop their balloon right away, but be able to listen to their information. I do mean listen!! Without giving feed back right away. One thing is it is different from forum engagement. Because forums are just posting back and forth. In person with have the person and must be able to listen closely (we have no outline to read) just what comes out of their mouth concerning the information we have been given by them. Also the information must be gone over thoroughly, enough to the point that we understand what has been given to us. In that way we can have an intelligent conversation about what w were given. We can only give our opinion after we have read, listened or watched what was given to us, and able to listen to the commentary of the brother/sister who gave us the information.

I can understand. I had an old friend from my youth that one day sent me some links about the flat earth theory and he was believing it.
I wrote back a long email. He stopped talking about it. Then few months laters he sent me more link about more foolish things he found in YouTube. At least that time was a different topic. I didn’t give an opinion that time. I actually felt bad about poking his recent illuminations.

[good samaritan]

I do believe we should warn sinners of the judgement, but I want to put my focus on the good news of the gospel. I have problems with puttting children on the front lines before they have gotten old enough to sort things out. That child was only speaking the things that she had been hearing all of her short life. There is gonna be a day when that child is going to start deciding what she believes for herself and being a church kid shouldn't be a horror story in her life. It may excite people to hear a small child on the internet that backs up their eschatology, but I wonder why such a heavy burden is placed upon a little girl.

My kids have drawn many people to our church and it wasn't through scary stories. Instead it was through their loving innocence. We had a neigbor to our church who walked her dog around the block and my kids started approaching her to talk to her about her dog (they had no alterior motive, but they were just interested in the little dog). Later they got on a first name basis with this lady. Then the kids started wanting to bring this lady plate dinners from our potlucks.

My children where outreaching this lady and not even realizing what they were doing. This lady recently was sent to a nursing and my children still want to go and visit and see how she is doing. It amazes me how my kids have taken with this elderly lady in what may be the final years of her life. I can tell other stories of people that probably wouldn't have been at our church if it werent for our children while they were small. (Now they are becoming teenagers and wheww)

I have had people to tell me that my children is the reason our church is growing. lol. I guess they are right in more than one way, because we are expecting our fourth child this October. lol.

[good samaritan]

Originally Posted by coksiw

I can understand. I had an old friend from my youth that one day sent me some links about the flat earth theory and he was believing it.
I wrote back a long email. He stopped talking about it. Then few months laters he sent me more link about more foolish things he found in YouTube. At least that time was a different topic. I didn’t give an opinion that time. I actually felt bad about poking his recent illuminations.

Youtube has fanned the flames to so many conspiracy theories. I try to be nice when I hear these stories, but if people only knew how crazy it makes their Christian witness sound.

[diakonos]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Go ahead...

Advice I’ll take going forward. I’m sick of the Ramirez guy being pushed on me. I directed brother to his website that instructs people to say the sinners prayer to get saved. The response I got is that Ramirez doesn’t know what was put on his website. SMH.
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