It may be healthy, but some people do not want to converse or discuss. They want to teach or make statements or declarations and have all listeners or readers agree with them absolutely....It’s healthy to have conversations and ask questions, like where did you learn that from was it something taught to you when you were younger? How did you come up with that notion? Have you ever considered this view instead?
I was not so assertive or insistent or bold when I was young in the Lord. It took a while before I believed I knew enough to open my mouth. It was long time before I was shown that Solomon's words in Ecclesiastes 3 applied also to me. If Jesus who knew the answers refrained from speaking when the right words may have saved him from crucifixion, who am I to presume I know better... Sometime we need to talk. Sometimes we need to be silent.I know in my own life I been in out of churches normally going to just see others there not really the message itself and never had to much of a problem except two times.
One time I got up during a mans preaching he said Talking about Jesus will have others come to you to hear about him. Standing up from the pew I said “yeah and sometimes it makes people not want nothing to do with you either” and walked out.
Contents and context are OK but perhaps more important is the message God actually wants to deliver to the reader or hearer. Do not presume there is not difference.Another time I spoke out at a different place and had to talk the man who owned the church itself. It was good to see him two Wednesdays now ago, and all there at that church.
Self-righteousness and especially saying “well the Bible says so” doesn’t really amount up to much if one doesn’t consider the contents and context of the bible.
The people who at times do not really want to receive and hear His message with understanding can include you or me. Where from do get the "ears to hear" of which Jesus speaks so that we can also understand?
Rather than a suggestion, make it a necessity. Without the Spirit of God leading and directing us we are the ones who will end up in a ditch instead of abiding always with the Lord.If you are someone who reading the Bible and it makes you start to hate people, or it makes you wanna use the Bible as a weapon in making little cuts and slits into the persons heart in where you beat each other down.
My suggestion to reconsider everything you learned and go back to the one who first loved us; enough to sacrifice himself so that all people can have access to God.
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