tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post1651257191466134227..comments2023-07-15T06:46:07.417-04:00Comments on Mister Sanity: Bad Analogies 101Jonadabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-46311667495828055002010-01-20T03:53:03.487-05:002010-01-20T03:53:03.487-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-62412165500627351842008-12-03T09:37:00.000-05:002008-12-03T09:37:00.000-05:00Also, the course makes the classic evangelism trai...Also, the course makes the classic evangelism training mistake of saying pretty much nothing about follow-up, and what it does say almost seems to imply that follow-up is undesirable.Jonadabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-31455624394632955142008-12-03T09:31:00.000-05:002008-12-03T09:31:00.000-05:00Tom: I apologize if I have upset you. It was not ...Tom: I apologize if I have upset you. It was not my intention to offend anyone.<BR/><BR/>Having seen the content of the rest of the course, I can now say that the bad fireman analogy is probably the worst offense. The course is not perfect by any means, but it's substantially better than any other evangelism training course I've yet encountered.<BR/><BR/>One other thing that does bother me about the course (and this may seem like a nitpick, and maybe it is, but I'm going to say it anyway) is that some of the early lessons actively encourage people to leave tracts laying around in random places, ostensibly in the hopes that people will find and read them. To me, that's littering.<BR/><BR/>I'm pretty sure the intention is to get people to build up their courage so that later they can work up to handing the tracts directly to people and ultimately to actually speaking with people, but the later lessons (which do, of course, talk about actually speaking to people) neglect to say, "and instead of just lamely leaving tracts laying around..." or in any other way indicate that that was a transitional courage-building step and should be discontinued. I suppose this is common sense, but I feel that it ought to have been stated, because not everyone has common sense.Jonadabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17960094338418224109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-74528218309036877822008-10-10T23:07:00.000-04:002008-10-10T23:07:00.000-04:00I think your analogy is better, if somewhat long. ...I think your analogy is better, if somewhat long. Closest I've come to someone "crying out" was a guy at work who asked me if I thought God would mess with people just for fun. We had a short conversation about spiritual matters from that. But, yeah, not a fireman analogy situation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06483407527186502247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-87967886520477576062008-10-05T02:25:00.000-04:002008-10-05T02:25:00.000-04:00So non-believers have their heads stuck in the san...So non-believers have their heads stuck in the sand, refusing to believe what is in front of them and it is the duty of those who do know the truth to enlighten them? I don't know if that works as an analogy, but I find it pretty damn offensive.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06121277289998943437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954176568680546255.post-33114338425846743252008-09-26T14:42:00.000-04:002008-09-26T14:42:00.000-04:00I've had people (well, one person) ask, although i...I've had people (well, one person) ask, although it wasn't completely out of the blue. We'd been corresponding for months, and I had mentioned spiritual things before. It was still a very welcome surprise.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226787274021701941noreply@blogger.com