re a bad experience
Dreamweaver
rr...@msu.edu (Randy Robb) wrote:
>In article <3u0kaq$p...@yama.mcc.ac.uk> Dreamweaver <jo...@fs1.er.man.ac.uk> writes:
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>>1. Should we, as christian artists, settle for second best and
>>substandard performances?
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>>2. Does preaching from the stage have a 'negative' influence on a lot of
>>people?
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>>3. What do people actually pay to hear?
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>I'm sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. One of the most important
>things about "sharing the Gospel" is that it is Truth, and He is real.
Indeed, and this IMO is exactly what didn't happen. I guess I just feel
that God
doesn't need to be sold via gimmickry, or acting. After all, He is
supposed to be
more powerful than anything/one else, so if He can'et do it without us
embelishing
the truth with a stage show then He's obviously not as powerful as what
we think?
>not wrong to have feelings of anger about what happened, and you need to share
>these things with your friends, Christian or not. The best evidence of His
>reality to your friends is your relationship with Him.
Unfortunately, some of the people who came along are very difficult to
realte to
(for instance, my ex girlfriend - I care about her a lot but find it
difficult to
be close and share how I feel anymore). I have however, made my feelings
about the
performance clear to them, so I hope they don't assume that all
christianity is
like this.
> You experienced alot of
>things that were wrong, and express this to your non-Christian friends and
>explain why it was wrong. Don't worry about the negative aspects of the
>performers "stage preaching". You're a Christian and you appear to be turned
>off by your situation, and apparently so were your friends, so I'd say that
>your example of your relationship with Christ would be more meaningful to your
>friends (in contrast to the preaching) , and not something they would shy away
>from.
I hope so...
> I personally don't think that stage preaching is entirely wrong, as long
>as a person shares God's working and Truth in his own life. When you start
>telling people what they should and shouldn't do, that's when alot of people
>get turned off.
Although all the christians who attended the concert really loved it and
thought
that it was all 'anointed by God'. It makes me wonder if we as
christians are able
to tell anymore how to relate to non christians.
John
"Do you love the Lord thy God with all your dogma?"
Killing Joke
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>Although all the christians who attended the concert really loved it and
>thought that it was all 'anointed by God'. It makes me wonder if we as
>christians are able to tell anymore how to relate to non christians.
I think, in large part, "Christian society" has become so isolated from
the "real world" that we _don't_ know how to relate to non-Christians
anymore. But there are, I'm glad to say, many exceptions to this. You
just have to know where to look.
JRjr
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'Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
The innocence slips away...'--Rush, Time Stand Still
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