RE: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian?

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How sad!!! We need sheep for our Sheltie who has no way to run off her energy except to chase squirrels.  She gets very upset when they run up a tree (very un-sheeplike.) Then I could take up spinning my own yarn for knitting scarves! What kind did you have/are you going to get? Izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slade Henson Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:55 AM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian?   We didn't need our dog to help. In fact, she would scatter them more! Sheep are very interesting...for instance, you have to have more than one. They die without a 'buddy". If one dies, they do NOT leave their dead friend. Many, many things we can learn from sheep. We'll be getting sheep again soon....   Kay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Debbie Sawczak Sent: Wednesday, 19 January, 2005 17.03 To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian? [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 passé 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       -----Original Message----- From: Slade Henson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:11 AM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian? 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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kevin Deegan Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2005 22.05 To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian? Can't get em by your zipped lip either! Jeff Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: perfect analogy! ----- Original Message ----- From: Slade Henson To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org 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 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Deegan Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2005 18.40 Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] What is a Christian? I have been easy on Dave this go round.  Would you agree Dave? Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more.