I call into phone in radio, finding ways to segue from current affairs topics into points about God. PLEASE try it yourself
Also, don't let argumentative atheists take up your time online. If you can make a comment that points people towards God then do, but if people try to argue with what you've written it's usually best to not reply, these debates can take up so, so much time. Remember Jesus mostly asked questions that nudged people to think, He didn't argue back and forth as we can end up doing.
Also, don't let argumentative atheists take up your time online. If you can make a comment that points people towards God then do, but if people try to argue with what you've written it's usually best to not reply, these debates can take up so, so much time. Remember Jesus mostly asked questions that nudged people to think, He didn't argue back and forth as we can end up doing.
Wouldn't that just show your stance is weak and can't hold up to scrutiny
They already think that. What not replying (nor reacting) actually shows
is that one has more to one's life than reading strangers' arguments.
If you reply, they'll argue further, and you'll have to reply again
(this time they'll know that you've been reading their comments, so
there's a greater likelihood they'll interpret a non reply as not having
an answer as they would have if you'd avoided reacting/replying in the
first place). They'll become increasingly stubborn and unwilling to
listen, even if your points are actually good.
It absolutely doesn't show that. It does show the criticism is more valid though. That the person can even answer back. "They'll become increasingly stubborn and unwilling to listen, even if your points are actually good" But maybe they aren't actually good. I don't think you're
considering that. And you not responding to show they are good points
just shows onlookers how bad your points actually are.
"It does show the criticism is more valid though. That the person
can even answer back." no it doesn't, that they answer back doesn't
prove that they're making a valid point.
"But maybe" hypothesising, lacking an actual point, in an attempt
to argue just demonstrates what I was saying - people online waste time
in pointless debates.
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DID have racist views. However, graffiti isn't going to help anyone,
what's needed is to address injustices in our world (and at a Global
level, folk with the most melanin are, the most oppressed) which can be
tackled NOW
The selfishness demonstrated in so many responses to Covid have been frustrating to observe, and plenty of people seem to have been left immune to reasonable respect for scientific guidance. We have the immense privilege of healthcare that most of humanity could only dream of (though we can fund healthcare for the world's very most disadvantaged people amazingly cost effectively), yet rather than having gratitude and exercising compassion for those in our own country who would be most endangered by a future outbreak, many people express that they'd resist future restrictions and vaccines.
666
The Bible sometimes uses imagery and references that would have conveyed meaning to the original listeners - just as certain idioms and cultural in-jokes can for us now - but which aren't wholly clear when translated into our present language and setting. Anxiety about the number 666 is misplaced and misses the fundamental point of Jesus' message
Food price caps
I'm horrified by increasing food costs, but Reeves is a ridiculous hypocrite. If she cared about people accessing food, she wouldn't have cut Aid to people in our world who are literally starving (food Aid for the world's poorest people is amazingly cost effective compared to costs here, yet she chose to reduce it dramatically, for human beings who have no food banks or welfare state). Actual governance would be addressing profiteering by supermarkets directly, and reducing the nation's food waste.
An important article in May's edition evaluates the "Revival", or lack thereof.
May I urge others to utilise the opportunity of phone-in radio? It's become easier to segue into discussing God - I've found that hostility has declined, which to me is seemingly a sign of the "Quiet Revival" trajectory.
I see that the lauded pollster Prof John Curtice has now joined the chorus decrying the notion of the Quiet Revival, on the basis of the British Social Attitudes survey RE Church attendance - yet we know that relationships with God are more complex than this. God implores us to press on and to rely on Him, rather than either to rest on our laurels or despair.
May I urge others to utilise the opportunity of phone-in radio? It's become easier to segue into discussing God - I've found that hostility has declined, which to me is seemingly a sign of the "Quiet Revival" trajectory.
I see that the lauded pollster Prof John Curtice has now joined the chorus decrying the notion of the Quiet Revival, on the basis of the British Social Attitudes survey RE Church attendance - yet we know that relationships with God are more complex than this. God implores us to press on and to rely on Him, rather than either to rest on our laurels or despair.
It's demonstrative of the nominalism that's so ubiquitous in recent history. I've only seen the phrase used by folk who are new to or unfamiliar with Christianity and who are perplexed by those of us for whom it's central to life. We shouldn't withdraw from culture, but Jesus (note, not traditions or rituals, valuable as these can be) is most important as we live within it.
Labels (ie "full fat") aren't what matter - but we need to make clear that merely culturally identifying with what feels familiar is not Christianity. There are people who indicate (particularly as culture wars heighten) that they're under the misapprehension they're congenitally Christian (ie by dint of birth), and they need to know that they're actually missing out on the greatest thing.
Discussion of Christianity in media, even if somewhat ignorant, should mitigate our inhibitions in sharing The Gospel.
Labels (ie "full fat") aren't what matter - but we need to make clear that merely culturally identifying with what feels familiar is not Christianity. There are people who indicate (particularly as culture wars heighten) that they're under the misapprehension they're congenitally Christian (ie by dint of birth), and they need to know that they're actually missing out on the greatest thing.
Discussion of Christianity in media, even if somewhat ignorant, should mitigate our inhibitions in sharing The Gospel.
The Golden Trump statue is yet more evidence, should it be needed (which I don't believe it is), that Trump is not the champion of Christianity he claims to be. Only cursory knowledge of the Bible is requisite to know that God disdains such idolatry. Were his behaviour and rhetoric - which are antithetical to Christ's teachings - inconclusive, he is proving his opposition to God yet more comprehensively. As such he emulates Communist dictators not only in his fondness for garish statues
When Trumpwas chastised for his messianic AI image, risibly he claimed he was portrayed not as Jesus but as a doctor due to his support for The Red Cross. In reality, Trump's wholly unChristlike termination of USAID projects has fuelled the spread of Ebola, which has now killed Red Cross workers. International Aid can be many times as cost effective as health interventions in the West - yet our government too has axed fundamental medical programmes. Traditional burial customs have, for some individuals, been a factor facilitating Ebola's spread - our politicians' disregard for humanity's most disadvantaged is arguably more tribal, primitive and irrational.