I have been traveling a lot and trying to finish a graduate course on Anthropolgy and Cummunication. There has been a lot of reading and writing in this course. In one of the books I recently finished, the following words caught my attention. When preaching the gospel, we cannot command a hearing.
(We) "must win a hearing by demonstrating that (we) are people of integrity, credibility, and goodwill" (David J. Hesselgrave, Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, page 146).
How true. The fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control must be present and visible. Then we have won a hearing from those we want to share Christ with.
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Thanks for your thoughts Sam... "intellectual and emotional arguments"... its got me thinking some more.
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