Monday, May 01, 2006

Is Blind Faith For Sunday Morning?

So today I get home from work, and my lovely wife, Ellie, says to me, you got to read this letter. You see I live in a condo and we had a lot of damage because of Hurricane Wilma and the condominium board members can’t agree to the best approach to repair all the damages.

There has been a lot of finger pointing and name calling and lo-and-behold we get a letter from the president of the association jumping in the fray. Frankly, I was with him until in has last paragraph he made the following statement:

“Blind faith is for Sunday morning.”

My first reaction was to think every bad name in the book to call him. My second reaction was to think of every bad name to call him. Then I got to thinking about what a Christian response should be and one of the best approaches when suddenly put on the defensive is to ask question.

We have a board meeting tonightand I never go because of these confratations but I am going tonight. I have only one question to ask that night and that is “What did you mean by that statement?” Depending on how I will follow up with some more questions.

You see the Christian approach is being smart and whimsical and be on the offensive without offending. Put the aggressor on the defensive and free yourself of making a winning argument.
Well, I will let you know how it goes.

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