On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Mary Jo Sminkey <mary...@cfwebstore.com>wrote:
> Well, that's not entirely true...we are pretty much told in the New > Testament to go out and proclaim the Good News. It's not something you are > supposed to be silent about, although certainly a lot of us that *are* > Christian are often more comfortable with that, and as you say, letting our > actions do the speaking. We're told to do a LOT of things in the new testament. I'm weary of people who take the Bible as a literal script for living their daily lives. Incidentally, have you read the book "A year of living biblically"?? > I personally am not particularly vocal or open about my faith in general, > but it's something I try to be aware of and not *actively* try to hide. As > my pastor would put it....if you had found something that brought you great > joy and happiness in your life, wouldn't you naturally *want* to tell > everyone about it? Yes, but everyone else doesn't really want to hear about it. > But to say we shouldn't try to convince people to believe what we > believe....well, that would be like saying you shouldn't try to convince > people to agree and vote with your political party/position. I don't try to convince people to vote my political party....so yes, it is similar to that. > And in a similar way, there are a people I enjoy discussing politics > with...and others that can be pretty offensive in their approach when you > are not in agreement with them. Indeed. Same is probably true with religion. Religion, like politics, is a discussion that usually goes like this: "Here is what I believe. Here is why I believe it. You should believe it too." It's that last part that complicates things. -- Once in awhile you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290001 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
