This made a very real and powerful point to me just now.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/211847.htm?nl=1
"[F]or many of the people I interviewed, witnessing is an essential part of their Christian faith. In order to understand that faith. I had to be willing persist in listening even when my salvation, beliefs, and life became the uncomfortable object of the conversation. I am using the word object here deliberately because, in many ways, I found witnessing to be an objectifying experience. No matter in what way I articulated or failed to articulate a reasonable position for myself, my lack of belief turned me into an object. In Martin Buber’s language, I often felt at these moments that I turned from a “Thou” in the conversation into an “It.”
If you evangelize, do you try to prevent that, and if so, how?
If you aren't Christian, do you feel objectified by evangelism? Why or why not?
2006-10-11
06:37:18
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