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Admin	Do you think... Posted : 8 Jan, 2012 03:32 PM So you think that sometimes we lose people we are trying to share our faith with by using some of the "Christian Lingo" that we sometimes use? I don't mean the Thee's Thy's and Thou's of the KJV bible, but some of the slang that has occurred over the years. I'm as guilty as the next on this. A situation at church earlier got me thinking about it. One of the second grade students at my church announced to me that he had recently "gotten saved". I was asking him about it and what that meant. He said he didn't know. That puzzled me and I asked him, if he didn't know, then how did he know he "was saved?" After conversation, turns out he did know what he was talking about, but it took some prompting of questions to help him explain (not like I gave him the words I just asked him How, and why questions.) So, that leads me to the question at hand. For those who didn't grow up in church, is it confusing when people use the words like "Sanctified" and "Holy" when they are not commonly used in the English language. Here's the way I see it: It's like if I were to walk up to some one and start a conversation about music and sheet music. I'm talking about what a pain it is when you are trying to sing staccato, and the Soprano three sections over is holding out her best Vibrato. There are quite a few who may understand, but if you haven't been trained in Music, you are not going to understand the lingo. So, do you think this is a problem, or do people just not want to understand. Also, if it is a problem, how would you correct it? Can you? Have you ever considered how you would explain in common language the process of understanding what Sin is, the process of Accepting Christ (doing huh??) and then becoming a new creature (yeah.. that one took me a while and I grew up in church.) Jesus spoke in parables that made since to the people of that time... can we do the same for now? Post Reply
elishabroadway View Profile History	Do you think... Posted : 8 Jan, 2012 08:49 PM Ok, well I think for the most part folks know what basicly the lingo means, but I have issues about witnessing I alwasy worry about sounding like a door to door amwqy salesman, having a pitch and telling them how Jesus will change their life sounds hokey even to my fleshly mind! Thats why we have to be careful of just throwing our pearls to swine, if God is njot dealing with a person and the time is not right then we will most definatly be trowing our pearls to swine just for them to trample it! Post Reply
View Profile History	Do you think... Posted : 9 Jan, 2012 07:37 AM That's a good point. If they are not ready to hear it, threy won't receive it... but I don't know that it means not to try. Now, I wouldn't beat them with it every time you see them, but sometimes the best kind of witness is just to love on some one and show Christs love that way. There was a song I heard a long time ago By Greg Long titled Fifteen... here are some of the lyrics... "If it takes fifteen times To hear about Jesus For someone to believe Wherever I stand in line I've got to make a difference In case it comes down to me 'Cause, I may be the third, may be the seventh There may be years in between But what if I'm fifteen What if I'm fifteen " You may not be number 15, but it took some one (or multiple some ones) to be numbers 1 - 14 (Or some times.... a lot of times... so many more) and step up. It took my Uncle until he was on his death bed to accept Christ from a pastor they had brought in that he probably didn't even know... but my dad, along with many others told him all along that he needed God. What might have happened if they hadn't? Post Reply
elishabroadway View Profile History	Do you think... Posted : 9 Jan, 2012 03:04 PM You are absolutly right, we must try at least, the best witness is our life, if someone knows we are a christian and we actuly live like a chrristian and poisses the thgings a christian should have such as joy and peace and longsufering, forbarnece, love and kindness then that speakis way more than words do, our life should alwys be witnessing to people Post Reply