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  1. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    I have spent the last hour trying to reply on the Gibson thread. I can't. I have twice written lengthy posts only to have them disappear in transit. Skidadl and Bill: read the last paragraph of my prior post and apply it to yourselves. As for being denounced by Mr Clifton--now if only I could piss off Maxine Asher!
     
  2. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Okay, Uncle Janko, where did I "denounce" you?
     
  3. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    I seem to have the same problem on some other threads.
     
  4. Bill Grover

    Bill Grover New Member

    Re: Re: Trying to reply

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    me too
     
  5. BLD

    BLD New Member

    Uncle Janko,
    I've tried to respond on the other thread also, but will do so here.

    I have taken the opposite approach to the Gibson film. I am openly promoting the film and asking our members to invite their unchurched friends to the movie and pay for their tickets. Afterward they will have the opportunity of a lifetime to explain the Gospel to their friends. I will also have a sermon series that follows up the film leading to Easter where the subject will be more fully explained. Rather than disparage the film, why not see it as a tool God can use for His glory?

    BLD
     
  6. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hi BLD: I hope, in your church context, that your approach works well for you. You and I might have an interesting discussion sometime on the role of popular culture in evangelism--a topic on which, I would think, there would be a range of constructive possibilities from near-total immersion to near-total rejection and everything in between.

    I suspect that you and I differ fairly radically on questions relating to how people are converted, and on the question of what is or is not a"tool God can use for His glory."

    In any case, if you are prepared to devote the amount of time and energy to this movie which you outline in your post, you should be able to deal with any errors or evils which may be part of it, and by after-the-fact action forestall the movie being an occasion of sin under the auspices of the church. I hope your project works out in God-pleasing ways--and in ways that are satisfactory to you.
     
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  7. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Re: Re: Trying to reply

    I ask again. Please have the common decency to reply since you made the allegation in the first place. Thank you.
     
  8. Guest

    Guest Guest

    The most sensible post on the subject to date!



     
  9. skidadl

    skidadl Member

    Hi BLD: I hope, in your church context, that your approach works well for you. You and I might have an interesting discussion sometime on the role of popular culture in evangelism--a topic on which, I would think, there would be a range of constructive possibilities from near-total immersion to near-total rejection and everything in between.

    I suspect that you and I differ fairly radically on questions relating to how people are converted, and on the question of what is or is not a"tool God can use for His glory."

    In any case, if you are prepared to devote the amount of time and energy to this movie which you outline in your post, you should be able to deal with any errors or evils which may be part of it, and by after-the-fact action forestall the movie being an occasion of sin under the auspices of the church. I hope your project works out in God-pleasing ways--and in ways that are satisfactory to you.


    Uncle janko,

    i would be interested to hear your opinion on the role of evangelism on this board which is a part of todays culture and not a part of the body of Christ. everything you say here is being judged by believers and none believers. i wonder if you hold the same beliefs to the same degree about the issue in ALL culture or just the ones that you choose and deem distasteful to you?
     
  10. BLD

    BLD New Member

    Uncle Janko,
    To give you a little context, I'm coming from a Willow Creek/Saddleback mentality.

    BLD
     
  11. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hi BLD: Then we are indeed utter, total, polar opposites on any number of issues! You are civil, do not misrepresent your views, have never run phony seminaries, and do not feign ignorance about your own posts, so all best wishes anyway, despite our profound disagreement. Let me know how your movie strategy works out. Cordially, Janko

    Hi Squiddle: If you are going to quote me, make that evident in the format of your posts. You continue to engage in reductio ad absurdum. Go squabble with Levicoff and Douglas. You might learn something in the process.
     
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  12. Guest

    Guest Guest

    "He who lives in the past doesn't have the courage to face the future."--Unknown
     
  13. skidadl

    skidadl Member

    wow! thats good janko, i just brought up a point as others have done here and expressed intrest in your views. i think i said that in the previous post. i wonder why you are offended at me? i really don't know what i have done to you but i am still interested in what your thoughts on what i asked in the last post.
     
  14. Bill Grover

    Bill Grover New Member

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    I think the Unk's ire is aimed at Jimmy not you.

    Janko is a separatist, Confessional Lutheran, is that right Unk ?, so, is not "evangelistic." But he is a faithful friend any way .

    Janko is oft opaque and speaks in mysteries.

    One needs either the interpretations of glossolalia or the discerning of spirits or both at times to fathom his depth.

    Once in fact whilst the Unk was writing his cogency in Carpathian(?) I felt a soul stirring and in a trance-like state I translated the strange text he had quoted---remember Janko?

    :D
     
  15. Guest

    Guest Guest

    And I am still awaiting for him to show me where I have denounced him as he posted.

    In spite of major theological differences and differences in civility between us, Uncle Janko has always been a man of honesty and integrity.

    Let's hope he continues in this vein and shows me where I have denounced him.
     
  16. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hi Bill: Whether your compliments are justified or not, your description of my theological/ecclesiastical stance is accurate. I do indeed remember your translation from Euro-Carpathian! (I can ask for the bathroom in Asio-Carpathian and count to three and say good morning, but that's about it.)

    Poor Squiddle doesn't understand that I think his reductio ad absurdum is stupid. Period. I'm not offended at him. He doesn't warrant that.
     
  17. Guest

    Guest Guest



    "Stultus quoque si tacuerit sapiens putabitur et si compresserit labia sua intellegens!"
     
  18. Bill Grover

    Bill Grover New Member

     
  19. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Sawubona Bill: You should be. I doubt I could have figured it out from a language of which I was unaware, though the wee tricolon ("faith, hope, love") could be a tip-off, what with the repetition of its last element. You continue to amaze the old classics teacher, even as others continue to amuse him.

    Marshal Foch was a great man, for a Frenchman.
     
  20. GENO

    GENO New Member

    With over 105K posts that are probably keyed, sequential by forum/thread/date/time the resequencing may be getting bogged down during simultaneous postings. May be time to archive some older postings and let the data management tools have some room to work.
     

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