admonishing 2 speakers
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:17 pm
In this dream I was co-ordinating/hosting some gathering or other and there were 2 speakers. The first speaker was someone who was a missionary and lived life on the edge of various precarious situations. All I can remember was that this man who was quite hippy looking was hyping up their talk a good deal and that he said he had gone to a desert in Iraq to stay with a lady missionary who had lived there faithfully for many years. As I was listening to this speaker I felt that they were self -glorifying more and more and I finally stood up and told them in front of the whole gathering that they were doing so and to please finish and sit down. In the dream I felt very angry that he was taking advantage of the opportunity to speak in such a way. He shrugged and ambled off seemingly unmoved by my rebuke. I later went up and apologised for the strength of my rebuke but reiterated what I had felt he was doing that was wrong...he remained nonchalent.
The second speaker was a quieter more serious looking man neatly groomed and obviously very quietly determined. He was talking about evangelism and saying very emphatically that the only valid form of evangelism was by speaking and he discounted action and acts of mercy etc as being valid elements of reaching out to the lost. Again I became very angry that he was being so dogmatic about his position and so one sided so again I stood up and rebuked him saying:
"I do not agree with you...I do NOT AGREE with you! " Several times I said this and looked him straight in the eye adn I noticed real humility growing across his countenance and I sensed that he was genuinely surprised that there were other positions to consider based on and according to scripture.
End of dream.
charlie
The second speaker was a quieter more serious looking man neatly groomed and obviously very quietly determined. He was talking about evangelism and saying very emphatically that the only valid form of evangelism was by speaking and he discounted action and acts of mercy etc as being valid elements of reaching out to the lost. Again I became very angry that he was being so dogmatic about his position and so one sided so again I stood up and rebuked him saying:
"I do not agree with you...I do NOT AGREE with you! " Several times I said this and looked him straight in the eye adn I noticed real humility growing across his countenance and I sensed that he was genuinely surprised that there were other positions to consider based on and according to scripture.
End of dream.
charlie