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By: Sarah Palin News And Gossip » Blog Archive » On Evangelizing Atheists

Sarah Palin News And Gossip » Blog Archive » On Evangelizing Atheists — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:45:30 +0000

[...] as Caraleisa stuck with her original post, I’m just going to link to my previous response: Witness Without Being a Pest. I don’t think I’ll change anything [...]

By: Christian Alert! » Pursuing Holiness

Christian Alert! » Pursuing Holiness — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:39:15 +0000

[...] kind of aggressive sales tactics aren’t just offensive.� They’re unneccessary.� Henry Neufield writes, �some Christians who want to push themselves on everyone in a frantic race to convert and bring [...]

By: It’s Christianity, Not Amway - Pursuing Holiness

It’s Christianity, Not Amway - Pursuing Holiness — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:29:10 +0000

[...] Henry Neufeld wrote, �some Christians who want to push themselves on everyone in a frantic race to convert and bring into church membership as many people as possible. �Jesus is coming back,� they think, �and he�s going to accidentally fry a bunch of people if I don�t get busy.� The answer, they seem to think, is to work on the statistics as fast as possible.� [...]

By: Azzurra

Azzurra — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:24:53 +0000

Buon luogo, congratulazioni, il mio amico!

By: Live It, Don’t Sell It at Pursuing Holiness

Live It, Don’t Sell It at Pursuing Holiness — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:44:03 +0000

[...] I’ve posted before on how some Christians behave as though they’re selling Amway. In Witness Without Being a Pest, Henry Neufield writes, “some Christians who want to push themselves on everyone in a frantic race to convert and bring into church membership as many people as possible. �Jesus is coming back,

By: Threads from Henry’s Web » Blog Archive » Witnessing and Proselytizing

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:06:30 +0000

[...] I’d like to tie in a reference to my post Being a Witness without Being a Pest. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Tom Sims

Tom Sims — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:49:03 +0000

Henry – This would be a powerful discussion for Christian Fellowship Forum if you think we could handle it and if Carol agreed. For now, I’ve blogged in it and have been enriched by it. – Tom

By: The Dream Factory

The Dream Factory — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:48:01 +0000

Jerklessness…

There is a dialgoue I just happened upon by two of my friends, Henry Neufeld and Carol Roper. Henry is a Christian and Carol is an atheist. Henry calls his article, Witness without Being a Pest. Read it all. Then…

By: PHaggerty

PHaggerty — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:39:57 +0000

Thanks Henry and yes I agree with that too. Talking =with= each other rather than =at= each other.

(You are always a pleasure to talk to.)

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:40:01 +0000

(I think that is more or less what Henry is saying above, except that he goes into way more detail).

If I could summarize it briefly, I would say, live it, and when you have an opportunity to talk about it, do so in the context of dialogue, not monologue. That's genuine dialogue, when you actually want to hear what the other person has to say. You know, for example, that Carol and I have discussed religion at some length. Why does this work? Simply because I've been listening to Carol express her view as well as talking about my own. Dialogue! It works in other areas of life. We really don't like someone who is always the one talking about a subject and who doesn't want his views challenged or discussed, nor does he want to hear anyone else's views. My contention is that many Christians have become monologue experts, and they should be unsurprised when people are annoyed by it.