Landmark Baptist

[cbut1]

I concur with you Brother Allbritton.

It is a sentiment that I have expressed numerous times on this forum but do not have the power of persuasion to make it more established that you have.

[G. Michael Coulter]

Good post Bro. Gary. What you say makes good sense to me.

[marmac]

"No, that is weak minded & deceptive posturing."

First post here, please excuse me if I don't do this right!

I totally agree with what you wrote. I was raised to be polite in ANYTHING that I do and try to. I don't think I've been able to do it 100%, but I try, with the Lords help.

Pray that I always can. As the scripture cited in the "rules", that's what God wants!

Pastor Marty McCoy
Schillinger Road Baptist Church
Mobile, Alabama

[marmac]

So that is where I think I have been going on this and other threads, when are we to be polite, non offensive, when do we speak our convictions. Anytime we are speaking our convictions it will be offensive to someone.

Yes I see. It is a good point you make. To have a goal of never having anything we say be offensive to anyone is a wimpy goal because it makes their feelings more important than truth. However, you are classifying non offesiveness and politeness in the same category as if one cannot politely speak a thing that someone gets offended at. One can preach a message against pedobaptism and chop that heresy into mush, in an honorable and even polite manner. Speaking our convictions need not be oppositte to speaking politely, or having a respectful and honorable debate.

We are indeed to be polite and honorable in our discussions and debates. That is not the same as being non offensive. We control our speech, but we cannot control their response, which may be to take offense.

Tom and Jack debate about whether Ford trucks are better than Chevy trucks. Tom rails on Jack being so stupid to think that Ford is better, and goes on about "Ford stands for Found On Road Dead", and insinuates that Jack is really a Ku Klux Klan member for even thinking that way. Jack refrains from that petty stuff and brings out stat after stat proving his point that Ford is better. He does not holler until he is hoarse, just vigorously debates. I say Jack debates honorably and Tom does not.

Of course they both got it wrong, because DODGE still rules truck land.

What say you?

What?? A person can be sooooo right (as evidenced in the first part of your post) and THEN just completely BLOW IT by saying that Dodge trucks rule!!! WOW!!

Ford trucks!! The undisputed leader of the truck world!!

Said politely

Pastor Marty McCoy
Schillinger Road Baptist Church
Mobile, Alabama

[G. Michael Coulter]

What?? A person can be sooooo right (as evidenced in the first part of your post) and THEN just completely BLOW IT by saying that Dodge trucks rule!!! WOW!!

Ford trucks!! The undisputed leader of the truck world!!

Said politely

Pastor Marty McCoy
Schillinger Road Baptist Church
Mobile, Alabama

Ah, the great controversy of our time! I must admit, I do not have reams of statistical information to provide to substantiate my claim. Mine is a little more sentimental. I drove my dad's old '71 Dodge to High School. It was bright yellow, and some of the guys called it "The Beast". Well, it ran forever, and had great power, 318, one of the best engines ever made. Then later, in my twenties I bought a primer grey '74 Dodge with a 318 for 500$. That was the pullenest rig I ever had. More than once I loaded that puppy up cab high with wood and passed folks on the road, climbed hills, whatever. Anyway, truth is truth, a good Power Stroke F250 is a wonderful thing, indeed. But my salivary glands generally stay dry until I set my eyes on and old Dodge or even a new Cummins Turbo Diesel, OOOO WEEEE! Never the prettiest, but Dodge is almost a synonym for 'pull' or 'haul'.

I guess we could agree, however, that whichever rules truck land, it ain't Chevy!