My gratitude for watching so we don't have to, Deion. The various points you raise knocking down his arguments are persuasive and well-formed--still, the part that will stick the most with me is your final sentence. Too often I forget that my foremost duty as a Christian is not to win the argument, but to help lead the soul of the wanderer back towards our Shepherd. Like St. Paul at the Acropolis I may think myself a skilled enough rhetorician to persuade my opponent to abandon his heresy; but what I really am is a man who probably needs to spend more time in prayer. Thank you for the reminder.
My gratitude for watching so we don't have to, Deion. The various points you raise knocking down his arguments are persuasive and well-formed--still, the part that will stick the most with me is your final sentence. Too often I forget that my foremost duty as a Christian is not to win the argument, but to help lead the soul of the wanderer back towards our Shepherd. Like St. Paul at the Acropolis I may think myself a skilled enough rhetorician to persuade my opponent to abandon his heresy; but what I really am is a man who probably needs to spend more time in prayer. Thank you for the reminder.