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To: Jane Hafker who wrote (823)	4/9/1998 1:40:00 AM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1283

There is such a swarm of angry bees that many may be led to the honey What I worry about when we have these eruptions of arguments which get personal, is that many people who may have otherwise found the honey, will instead be turned away by the angry bees. When seekers see us fighting in a distinctively non-Christian way, they get a negative impression of Christianity. If we deter even one lurker from God by our intemperance, his or her eternal damnation will be on our heads. I was going to stop here but I feel a strong push to keep going. I have a lot of sins for the Lord to forgive when I get up there. I don't know if I've been responsible for anyone's damnation, but it well could be. I was a pretty articulate agnostic/humanist for many years and haven't been perfect as a Christian, and I'm sure I set a bad example at times. Even recently I lost my temper at a minor insult from someone I didn't know and shouldn't care about. At that moment, there may have been a lurker, curious about God, peeking in to see what those Christian types talk about among themselves. And if I gave a negative impression, that person may have said "just what I thought, a bunch of self-righteous, intolerant, mean-spirited jerks" and turned away from God. And it would be my fault. I can think of no greater sin than that. We're doing that every time we start name calling and fighting on this thread. We are convicted. Now let's all of us repent and reform. Standing among the guilty, Kenneth Chalmers Kirk