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Reps: 4,478 (power: 14) | | I've built a Catholic shrine in my locker at school, complete with candles and Gregorian chant. That usually does the trick for me, as far as witnessing goes. 
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24th January 2007, 03:54 PM
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Reps: 344,291,971,827,879 (power: 344,291,971,856) | | Originally Posted by RoseofLima  The thing that bothers me about a particular kind of witnesing- is that there is an invisible score sheet being kept for how many people they "have brought to Christ". I have actually heard this often-- people talking about how many people they brought to Christ. And I just recoil at that...
Or they could have had the bamboozle scared out of them by some preacher who said that if they didn't witness, those people's blood would be "on their hands." Whatever. Scare tactics to get you "saved," scare tactics to make you get other people "saved." It's a fear-driven pyramid scheme.
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24th January 2007, 03:57 PM
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Reps: 344,291,971,827,879 (power: 344,291,971,856) | | Originally Posted by Mysterium_Fidei I've built a Catholic shrine in my locker at school, complete with candles and Gregorian chant. That usually does the trick for me, as far as witnessing goes.
Or whenever they say something to discourage your faith, swing a 5 inch Benedictine medal at them and scream " DRINK THE CUP YOURSEEEEELLLLLLLFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!"
__________________ "No matter what the analogy is, any attempt to use analogy, simile, metaphor, or any other lofty rhetorical technique in a debate
being conducted on the Internet is doomed to end badly. No matter how carefully you set up your analogy, somebody will come
along and interpret it in the most stupidly literal way possible, find some tiny point where it fails to correspond perfectly with the
actual topic of discussion, and decide that this disagreement is an utterly devastating counter-argument to whatever point you
were trying to make. If the topic is anything remotely controversial, like religion or politics, tens of somebodys will jump on the
stupidly literal interpretation, and arguments about the validity of the analogy will come to totally dominate the discussion."
Chad Orzel. Uncertain Principles: Physics, Politics, Pop Culture.
Posted: September 19, 2009 8:54 AM.
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24th January 2007, 04:04 PM
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I'm going to start walking around with a limp because I'll start wearing one of those things (self-mortification thing that guy wore in DaVinci code)... I'll have blood stains on my legs. |
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24th January 2007, 05:03 PM
| | | Originally Posted by Mysterium_Fidei I've built a Catholic shrine in my locker at school, complete with candles and Gregorian chant. That usually does the trick for me, as far as witnessing goes.
Somewhere on the Internet, there is a thread like this about you 
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24th January 2007, 11:42 PM
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Reps: 51 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by RoseofLima You could also say something like "Awesome! You wanna pray the roasary with me at lunch?"
The thing that bothers me about a particular kind of witnesing- is that there is an invisible score sheet being kept for how many people they "have brought to Christ". I have actually heard this often-- people talking about how many people they brought to Christ. And I just recoil at that...
To me that is so inherently flawed from the get go- that there is the sense of personal glory and satisfaction for the person - rather than doing all for the glory of God. I don't bring people to Jesus- the Holy Spirit does, I am but a vessel who can seek to speak when prudent, to stay silent when prudent and to live my life as the very sign and symbol of the joyful sacrifice of Christ and the fullness of His redemption.
People notice compassion, gentlenes, joy, long suffering-- all of the fruits of the Spirit. If it's just us- we are but one of the masses--but if we live life in the Spirit abundantly - people take notice.
Mostly people just feel awkward when Jesus is introduced through a handshake for the purpose of a notch on the wall.
I believe that "invisible score sheet" is called "Soul Winning." I have a lady I work with who constantly tries to "soul win" to me. More often than not, I find her methods very...offensive. I don't think people should assume in that sense. They automatically assume that you aren't a God-worshipping, Christ-believing individual. Oh...and my favorite. The county fair where they have a booth set up and start in on the "Do you know if you are going to Heaven?" routine. Not saying they have it wrong, they are just going about it the WRONG way. |
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Reps: 41,832,729,621,963,232 (power: 41,832,729,621,979) | | Originally Posted by RoseofLima You could have said something like "Oh really- is that something you're likely to forget? I'll say a Hail Mary for you!"
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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