Saturday, October 13, 2012

Orbits

When religion teachers try to engage you, they seem to orbit around teaching the faith. If your orbit is outside of theirs, they never go out to where you are. These teachers, preachers stay inside their religion. They explain but they don't engage. They speak answers, but don't ask questions. Why would they ask about your orbit. They are not into listening. They want you to come into their orbit.  It seems that Jesus the teacher engages people rather than preaches at them.  He asks questions.  He asks their opinion about something, as in the case of the fellow who wanted to know who is the neighbor.  Jesus tells stories to engage people.  Some teachers are simply in your face, or just in their own world, which to them has all the truth, and if you don't get there, well, you are damned.

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