Cheryl Schatz

Don #28,

“But the non-egals are losing and they know they are losing, so one response is to rachet up the rhetoric. This is why they try to connect egal with liberalism; they say if you do not agree with us, the bogeyman will come and get you, where the bogeyman can be any number of things. And if you really do believe that a bogeyman is coming, it only makes sense to warn others.”

This is exactly right. Even the non-egals admit that they are losing the battle. In my mind I wish it was even faster because it is painful to have to fight this battle with our own brothers.

I see this battle as the same kind as I fought with the JW’s. Sometimes I felt like I was hitting my head against the wall, but others times I made such good insight. The problem is that they were trained to not let you know when you gave them a good point to think about. Sometimes it only takes one point to plant a seed and the Holy Spirit is able to make it grow. It can be the same thing with non-egals. We don’t know which thought we can give that will plant a seed within their heart. It is in a hidden place and we may not know for a long time, but God can make it grow. This is why I am always looking to find a different way to say the same thing. I want to turn the problem position over in my mind and look at it from every possible angle. What may cause one comp to see something he has never seen before may do nothing for another one. Yet the two biggest keys are an open heart that desires truth more than tradition and God’s Holy Spirit who can make ANY good seed grow.