Not a clue Tony Payne

Philip Griffin24/01/2009 04:54 PM

Tony, I think what you experienced as you interviewed people is now the norm.  Living in a post Christian culture, as I think we do, means that even those who have some kind of allegiance to a church will often have no understanding of the gospel, or, if they do, they have rejected it.

I wonder what the candidates would have said had they been asked to give their honest response to the claim that no one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ, for example. 

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Tony, in Edward Donnelly’s Heaven and Hell, he tells the story of the radio program where prominent personalities were asked for their idea of Heaven.

Each person spoke of some ideal happy place, but not a single one mentioned God, or Jesus.

Michael Hutton24/01/2009 08:55 PM

This is a good opener for a discussion on employing unbelievers in Christian institutions (Christian schools,  for example.)

How long does an institution stay “Christian” (whatever that means for an institution) when the senior executive is completely clueless?

This is probably for another post, not just another comment.

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