[Debbie] Don't you sometimes have to get a dog to help round
them up? (Does the dog bark? I wonder if the sheep feel pushed or
intimidated by the dog, or does the dog make them think it's their
idea to go in a certain direction...)
I
wonder if it's possible that street preaching, while not necessarily pass�
in any theological sense, is just not the ideal
medium for our culture; you have to violate too many cultural norms to
do it. I notice we are much more culturally sensitive (or at least we'd
acknowledge the value of such sensitivity) when it comes to communicating to
cultures other than our own. If, for example, it was kind of rude to
give a gift with your left hand, we wouldn't do it, even if the gift was a
Bible and our right arm was sore. If it was rude to come to the point about
anything without first spending an hour on small talk about our
relatives, over tea, we would be sure and do that. But some SPs flout
NAm cultural norms fairly routinely and (IMO) unnecessarily. --Not that
that's the worst thing you can do, and I'm willing to believe their motives
are mostly pure (see rejected analogy below).
Maybe in Bible times it was more usual for anybody with a
message to shout it out in a public place. Most public shouting in
our culture is done by ticket-scalpers, circus-barkers, and certain
kinds of political demonstrators. Other public messages are generally
delivered by other means.
Someone might want to use an analogy of the kind, "What if there's a
comet about to hit the earth and you have to tell everybody to head for
higher ground?" But the analogy isn't appropriate.
Debbie
Au contraire, contraire, preacher! All you have to do is
lead...they follow. You never have to udder (hehehe...I know that's for
cows) a word to them.
Kay, who has raised sheep with Slade
Can't get em by your zipped lip either!
Jeff Powers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
perfect analogy!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
20:45
Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What
is a Christian?
What do you
think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone
astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go
and search for the one that is straying? If it turns out that he
finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
Anyone who has raised sheep knows you can't
get the lost sheep to come back to the fold by chasing and screaming
at her.
- slade
I have been easy on Dave this go round.
Would you agree Dave?
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