So, I've answered your comments on the previous blog, but here is your chance for true confession. And this is a serious question - I'm not looking for a compliment or an excuse - I'm really looking for an answer.
Why to do you come here? Specifically, why do you come here to discuss things that 1)I'd rather you didn't discuss, 2)I've asked you not to discuss?
I understand why you want to discuss them, truly I do. Each of you has a different opinion - some more different than others of course, but a different opinion. Each wants to be clearly understood by the other. In fact, so clearly and persuasively understood that you change the other's position. That I understand quite clearly of course.
But why here? Why don't you have these discussions on your own blogs - why don't you converse back and forth with each other where you aren't censured or corrected or asked to behave? What's the draw to having the discussions here?
Just curious. Honestly, just curious.
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Susan,
You're a good host and gracious in putting up with me and with this. And you can interact just fine on this stuff, if you so choose.
And your blog has seemed to be the place for hot button issues, at least hot button with some. My blog is peaceful and quiet, and you have hardly any breath of the least amount of controversy on my blog (almost boring at times). But there's just a different dynamic on your blog.
Of course you being a Christian and just who you are as God has created and is recreating you in Jesus, all go into the mix here. That has an appeal to us, I'm sure. To keep us coming back for more. ha.
When I first came to your blog I thought you were too Calvinist, and while the emphasis and many of your thoughts on God's sovereignty was good, I wasn't quite on the same page, though yes, things are not out of control if God is God.
But you are gracious and a person of grace in Jesus, even when you have to shut down my silly comments, etc. Your blog just has a different dynamic to it. NOT ASHAMED, because of God's grace in spite of ourselves and our sin, and because of the gospel/ good news of Jesus. You certainly have freely shared of yourself, and this makes the room comfortable for others to be ourselves, even if that means sometimes we will need correction or words of wisdom from you.
So that's just the beginning, or maybe in a nutshell, as to how I'd describe it, and my answer. :)
you can interact just fine, and beyond that, really.
I maybe am too given to wanting to share my opinions at times. I think I am.
I began coming here because somebody told me there was free food. There was one commenter's bitterness that drove me to a sabbatical, but for the most part, the diversity is very appealing. Your main contributors are all respectable and worth listening to. I would not call any one of them a moron, though I find intellectual deficiency pervasive through many other outlets of the blogosphere.
I keep coming back to these discussions, because I think it is good to participate in civilized discussions with people from different worldviews. Hanging out exclusively with yea-saying cronies is un-stimulating, and maybe even pointless.
Btw, I finished disc four of Monk and I think the final episode of season one is my favorite. :-)
"What's the draw to having the discussions here?"
I'm not sure. It just sort of happens. You are a gracious host, that's for sure.
I suppose the Lord Jesus has gifted you in a way that draws all kinds of human beings to meet at your blog, and discuss, debate, and encourage each other.
I don't know really.
I guess it always seems like to me that there's no point in "beating a dead horse", as it were - and yet it seems like sometimes you guys keep doing it. And maybe "you guys" is the operative word. Maybe it seems mean-spirited to me, or that you're not listening to each other when really you are. It seemed very contentious. So - I wasn't really looking for complements, just trying to figure out how to handle the creation/evolution debate and whether to really open it back up for discussion again.
I seldom enter into debates on someone else's blog...so I seldom comment here but I find the conversation interesting.
I'm like the way you invite conversation...I could probably learn a thing or two (or three) from you
I do think it's a strength to be able to discuss differences we have, and maybe sharp differences at that. But to be able to do so in love, and to listen well.
But it is hard to understand just why this blog seems to facilitate this. I think there are reasons we don't understand (like you say, Don), and that surely God is in it.
The gospel is the power of God for salvation, and this is what you center on, or want to center on. And I think you do so, even in your simple, everyday posts, the kind I think which actually can be more or just as profound because they help others "see" something in your living which maybe they don't know yet for themselves.
Hello from India, where I'm preparing my oral defense for my degree.
Susan wrote in response to the comments\dialogue in the previous post: "It seemed very contentious."
I'm glad I never commented to that post, so as not to have come across as contentious again.
The appeal of your blog, Susan? Every small town has its local pub where people get together to meet and talk. Our internet pub turns out to be "Not Ashamed".
I'll have a single malt scotch.
Triston
You crack me up Triston - I meant the posts where I finally said that you all had to quit discussing evolutions versus creation, not the previous one. But, we welcome you back to the blog and pray that God grants you safety in your travles and His richest blessings on your oral exams - that He would literally bring everything you've learned to your remembrance!
why not?
;o)
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