Cheryl Schatz

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When one is confident of what one believes and one’s own ability to defend that belief from the scripture, there should be no fear in listening to the other person’s point of view.  The loving thing is to listen first of all to walk alongside the person and secondly to act in love to help them see the holes in their own argument.  Attacks and name calling will never soften one up to hear another person’s point of view.  It only produces defensiveness and resentment.  If we truly care about the truth of our position we should be willing to patiently explain, defend and listen so that our ability to persuade is looked on as something valuable.