Real evangelism powered by the Holy Spirit

Shining One

As JWs we all were forced to participate in their evangelistic method. I think that it is based primarily on fear. Here is an article about true, Holy Spirit powered evangelism.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=22362
Rex

LittleToe

Rex:You need a new hobby...

DavidChristopher

How much does it cost?

JamesThomas

Excuse me Rex, but I'm confused.

Southern Baptists (which your link leads us to) teach and believe that if you do not accept Jesus as your saviour you are sentenced to eternity in hell; and you're looking us in the eye and saying there is no fear attached to that? At least the Witnesses taught there was no hell.

j

Honesty

Southern Baptists (which your link leads us to) teach and believe that if you do not accept Jesus as your saviour you are sentenced to eternity in hell; and you're looking us in the eye and saying there is no fear attached to that? At least the Witnesses taught there was no hell.
j

I would be interested to know what the Bible says about that, James. I and many others were intimidated and motivated by fear when we were in the JW cult and a lot of people on this board are really turned off by groups that teach fear.

Do you have any scriptures that either confirm or deny what the SBC teaches?

Benjamin Belial

I thought real evangelism was powered by paranoia, ignorance and superstition. Plus wine and some really good 'shrooms.

DanTheMan

Southern Baptists (which your link leads us to) teach and believe that if you do not accept Jesus as your saviour you are sentenced to eternity in hell

Good luck getting a straight answer to that one.

JamesThomas

Do you have any scriptures that either confirm or deny what the SBC teaches?

Let's be honesty, Honesty. If you want specific scriptural bases for Southern Baptists beliefs, ask them. I personally give no credence to a book that belittles and diminishes our Source to such a hostile and hurtful thing. I have the present actuality and reality of life in and around me to teach me of the Divine, I need no desert tribesman's mumblings from days gone by.

This is not rocket science; if anyone wants to know what the Baptists teach and believe, all they need do is Google it, and there it is, plain and simple. I'm not going to do it for you. How hard can it be to honestly admit that Christian beliefs that support eternal damnation for not accepting Jesus, is a doctrine that motivates extreme fear in many already broken and frightened people? Perhaps to be so honest would require looking at our own fear instilled by Christian beliefs; and then we might have to admit how much we hate it.

j

Reluctant Buddha

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JamesThomas

The HS doesn't reside in you and probably never will.

I'm not answering for Rex, but I find your above statement extremely foolish and absurd. What right do you have to say that to another person? How small is your god that it be scattered in little fragments around the universe?

Edited to add: For someone who "meditates 90 minutes a day", you should know better.

j

Real evangelism powered by the Holy Spirit

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