Comments on: The Inexplicable Hug

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:08:09 +0000

I think it’s possible, but haven’t tried it. Let me know how it goes… and I like what Mike said.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:44:34 +0000

To answer the question, I say go ahead and have a discussion. Let the Spirit guide, bear frequent heartfelt testimony, sharing faith-building experiences, and hope the person feels the Spirit. If so, you can likely have an enriching discussion. If things quickly lead to debate that’s most likely not going to help anyone – gracefully exit.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:39:33 +0000

I say go for it. I’ve had a couple experiences having religious discussions with another person who was strongly in favor of their own Christian position. In the first one, the fellow was specifically trying to unconvert me from Mormonism and unbeknownest to him, I ended up teaching him most of the discussions through our regular discussions. We met occasionally for several months and had mostly enriching discussions. Some debates became a littled heated. In the end, it didn’t amount to anything, but I’m sure he felt the Spirit occasionally and he left me alone after a while. I think he was actually becoming converted to the LDS church, but didn’t want to admit it. He agreed to have the missionaries visit and formally take the missionary discussions, but then things dropped off. On another occasion, Carrie and I were working on sharing the gospel with a specific friend. Things were going well and she had come over for dinner and an FHE. Later she started inviting us to things at her church. Though I couldn’t confirm it, I’m pretty sure after our various interactions with her, she was trying just as hard to convert us as we were trying. Once this became apparent, we held back a little and focused more in building the friendship. Another gospel-sharing moment didn’t really come along.

By: A2

A2 — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:19:18 +0000

OK. We’ll see if there’ll be any water to pollute =)

By: WhiteEyebrows

WhiteEyebrows — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:43:57 +0000

ok.. I wrote my answer, but since we already had this discussion, I want to see what everyone else has to say before I pollute the water.

By: Debora

Debora — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:32:02 +0000

Good thing you and WE think about some important topics- I’ll just keeping posting pictures of food and flowers and scrapbook stuff