If you invite someone to church, it wasn’t your invitation that might save them later, it is God’s. Give God the glory for His mercy that He promises to offer each and every one of us.
You all crack me up… serioulsy its a blast to read.
I think that more than trying to convert Hemant there is a lot of learning that can and is going on. A lot of the atheists that I know are really intimidated by evangelical Christians. I dont know how the evangelical Christains feel about atheists but dialogue and learning breakes down a lot of the misconceptions that the two groups have about each other. If nothing else it makes it a lot harded (for me a least) to objectify all evangelical Christians, that is to see them only as that and not also as individual people. I breakes down some of the fear… I think maybe that is the legacy of the project, for me at least.
skikid. i think you nailed it. as i understand off-the-map, they are just trying to facilitate conversations. i completely agree that ‘dialogue breaks down a lot of the misconceptions that the two groups have about each other”
Comment by: Siamang
1 02/20/06 11:26 PM | Comment Link |You know in science when you give one white rat the medicine and one white rat a placebo?
Hemnant’s getting the placebo.
But wierdly, since he’s going to church more than any atheist I know, he’s also getting the medicine!
(Sorry Hemnant, for calling you a rat.)
Comment by: Ir
2 02/21/06 4:33 AM | Comment Link |Perhaps Hemant is being paid to help OTM develop a new medicine and when it’s ready, it will be as available to him as anyone else.
Comment by: Mark
3 02/21/06 5:10 AM | Comment Link |We ain’t lost. I’m going to bite my tongue from any further derogatory comments.
Comment by: ike
4 02/21/06 7:34 AM | Comment Link |No man can save another, nor can I save myself.
If you invite someone to church, it wasn’t your invitation that might save them later, it is God’s. Give God the glory for His mercy that He promises to offer each and every one of us.
Trust Him, He knows what each of us needs.
Peace.
Comment by: skikid
5 02/21/06 8:36 AM | Comment Link |You all crack me up… serioulsy its a blast to read.
I think that more than trying to convert Hemant there is a lot of learning that can and is going on. A lot of the atheists that I know are really intimidated by evangelical Christians. I dont know how the evangelical Christains feel about atheists but dialogue and learning breakes down a lot of the misconceptions that the two groups have about each other. If nothing else it makes it a lot harded (for me a least) to objectify all evangelical Christians, that is to see them only as that and not also as individual people. I breakes down some of the fear… I think maybe that is the legacy of the project, for me at least.
Comment by: peter magelssen
6 02/22/06 1:11 PM | Comment Link |skikid. i think you nailed it. as i understand off-the-map, they are just trying to facilitate conversations. i completely agree that ‘dialogue breaks down a lot of the misconceptions that the two groups have about each other”
Comment by: Nida
7 02/22/06 8:42 PM | Comment Link |Siamang- His name is Hemant. There is only one n. It’s near the end. By the T.