Re: Hell (was The Wall)

**Rowland Croucher** wrote:
 
> Chris Bell wrote:
>> Chuck Stamford wrote:
>>
>>> I can cite you example after example where he has simply thrown a 
>>> panoply of differing beliefs at people who were truly seeking 
>>> guidance in their search for truth.  Is that your idea of what a 
>>> minister of the Gospel is supposed to do?
>>>
>> Yes. Absolutely. 
>
> It's actually a responsible pedagogical method, rather than/ in 
> additional to an especially Christian one. True teachers allow people 
> to look at all sides of a question, and make up their own minds. 
> Treating adults like children (or Pharisees... who have to posit 
> everything in black-and-white credal terms) is, as Henri Nouwen wrote, 
> a 'violent' rather than 'redemptive' way for a teacher to teach (in 
> his book 'Creative Ministry').
 
That's just a cop out and no excuse for not saying what YOU believe. 
Could the real reason why you wont give definitive and honest answers to 
direct questions simply be that we would learn that you don't really 
believe what as a christian minister you're supposed to? I think so.
 



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Pete
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