Re: Wow.

From: tschibasch <tschibasch_at_yahoo.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:21:20 -0000

Reverend Jed Smock's approach to teaching the Bible is called
"Confrontational Evangelism". He describes it in his book, Who Will
Rise Up, which is also an autobiography.

Basically, if you are walking thru some college campus and Jed insults
you, then you are naturally pissed off. You maybe yell back at him. He
insults more. Then you go home and think about what he said, and as
the anger dies down, you decide to look more at being saved. You
figure out that Jed was right.

This method worked for Sister Cindy, who later became Jed's wife. But
for most people, seriously, I suspect that Jed is merely written off.


John

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joy McCann"
<joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
>
> There is a connection between hostility and humor; sometimes it is the
> most twisted people who are the funniest.
>
> A lot of fundamentalists end up being an awfully bad witnesses, and
> their doctrine of separatism is, to my mind, unscriptural.
>
> --J
>
> On 10/27/06, mikal9000_at_... <mikal9000@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The preacher's name was Jed Smock, and I believe his crass,
bigoted and
> > hateful ranting turned me (and countless other students) OFF to
the *Good
> > News* for years. It took me a long time to discover Christians
like Thomas
> > Merton and G.K. Chesterton, who are to that guy what Beethoven and
Mozart
> > are to GG Allin.
> >
> > At the time, I thought Paul was funny as hell. Now, I believe he just
> > represents an even nastier and more vapid form of self-loathing and
> > barely-concealed misanthropy.
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: David Coons <yahoo_at_...>
> > > In fact, I believe John has in his film archives some footage
> > > of a very short interview we did with the Reverend ___ that Paul
> > > Ross was heckling once at UCLA. It's possible that Paul's heckling
> > > forever diverted us from religious observance by wrapping a
> > > kind of verbal condom around the great pontificator..
> > >
> > > But then again, we may never know.
> > >
> > > dc
> > >
> > > tschibasch wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, of course.
> > > >
> > > > A long time ago I discovered Paul Ross had a wikipedia entry
of his
> > > > own. But should we be so surprised?
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
>
Received on 2006-10-31 13:23:26