Comments on: Scripted Evangelism http://perilousrealm.net/2005/10/19/scripted-evangelism/ Looking for Rivendell in Rochester, NY Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andie http://perilousrealm.net/2005/10/19/scripted-evangelism/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Andie Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:28:26 +0000 http://www.restlessreformer.com/?p=86#comment-99 Aye, I agree with this. Too many Christians I know are more focused on proving the 'other side' wrong than loving and understanding them. You don't have to agree with the person to get to know them. A lot of people I know have a more 'us vs. them' mentality that misses the point of what we are supposed to do whilst on the earth. Aye, I agree with this. Too many Christians I know are more focused on proving the ‘other side’ wrong than loving and understanding them. You don’t have to agree with the person to get to know them. A lot of people I know have a more ‘us vs. them’ mentality that misses the point of what we are supposed to do whilst on the earth.

]]> By: Mark "foolish sage" Traphagen http://perilousrealm.net/2005/10/19/scripted-evangelism/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Mark "foolish sage" Traphagen Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:35:27 +0000 http://www.restlessreformer.com/?p=86#comment-98 Strangely enough, right before I read this post I received an email from a friend satirizing how too often Van Til's apologetic comes across in the hands of his warrior children. He imagined a Van Tillian interacting with the author of a book that happened to be written by a homosexual. "You can't know any truth because...well, because you're a homosexual, and hence a suppresor of the truth!" Of course, the homosexual repented and received Jesus on the spot ;-) Strangely enough, right before I read this post I received an email from a friend satirizing how too often Van Til’s apologetic comes across in the hands of his warrior children. He imagined a Van Tillian interacting with the author of a book that happened to be written by a homosexual. “You can’t know any truth because…well, because you’re a homosexual, and hence a suppresor of the truth!” Of course, the homosexual repented and received Jesus on the spot ;-)

]]> By: Travis Prinzi http://perilousrealm.net/2005/10/19/scripted-evangelism/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Travis Prinzi Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:55:03 +0000 http://www.restlessreformer.com/?p=86#comment-97 Yeah, that's just the thing, isn't it? Too many of us don't see love as an end in itself, but as a means to some greater end. I think iMonk's essay "Wretched Urgency" is what broke me from all the evangelistic guilt trips laid on me, and I've started to learn (though I have a long way to go) that communicating and acting upon the love of Christ is its own great work. As it is now, we often look like a bunch of insecure people who are desperate for converts. Yeah, that’s just the thing, isn’t it? Too many of us don’t see love as an end in itself, but as a means to some greater end. I think iMonk’s essay “Wretched Urgency” is what broke me from all the evangelistic guilt trips laid on me, and I’ve started to learn (though I have a long way to go) that communicating and acting upon the love of Christ is its own great work.

As it is now, we often look like a bunch of insecure people who are desperate for converts.

]]> By: Glenn http://perilousrealm.net/2005/10/19/scripted-evangelism/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Glenn Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:12:33 +0000 http://www.restlessreformer.com/?p=86#comment-96 Travis, Thanks for bringing this out of the archives. I remember it and I think you had a friend named Amy who was also writing comments about your post. Yep, it's that sort of agenda cum cluelessness that motivated Ben and me to write Common Grounds. Not that we've got it figured out. Of course we don't. But we've been learning how to love people for who they are, listen, take them seriously, and again, love them. I guess we have an agenda, too, but love as love seems a better one than you depict from this event in this post. Travis,
Thanks for bringing this out of the archives. I remember it and I think you had a friend named Amy who was also writing comments about your post.

Yep, it’s that sort of agenda cum cluelessness that motivated Ben and me to write Common Grounds. Not that we’ve got it figured out. Of course we don’t. But we’ve been learning how to love people for who they are, listen, take them seriously, and again, love them. I guess we have an agenda, too, but love as love seems a better one than you depict from this event in this post.

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