[HarleyD]

That is an excellent testimony that mirrors my own.

I would just say that people don’t listen because they don’t want to listen. It isn’t a fault in the delivery, the style, the accent, or whether one has bad breath. The Holy Spirit must move the heart. We just cast seeds.

All God requires of us is that we be faithful to His calling.

[Zeneta]

Thanks

I get very frustrated and loose sight of the seeds along the way.

I suppose I think that other people actually care or are even capable of processing information that may conflict with their worldview.

I once asked a good friend or semi-co-worker, a smart guy, “If it where discovered, scientifically, beyond all doubt, all over the news, that the Earth was no more than 10,000 years old”, “Would it change your worldview ?”

His reply was “No”.

He is and was very liberal and anti-religious, and he was considered by many of his peers to be a really intelligent person.

I have found that truth has become so relative that individuals will hold onto and refuse to entertain new facts if it conflicts with what they have been conditioned to believe.

My ex-Girlfriend again, very liberal and anti-religion, made a random comment that “More Blacks died in the Vietnam war than whites”. I said that that was completely false without knowing the actual numbers and challenged her to prove it. She said “Everybody knows this” and we proceeded on our dueling internet connections to verify our positions.

When we both produced real numbers, virtually the same numbers from reliable sources that confirmed my position, her response was rage, an all out attack on me personally.

I can only call this “cognitive dissonance”.

I even explained cognitive dissonance to her at a later date, and you would think that someone like her that was so wrapped in relativism would consider this phenomenon.

There is a mental block that keeps so many people from the truth.

I have come to recognize this and think that the only way to get them to think for themselves is eat away at the edges. Sow the seeds, I suppose.

I am very lucky to have a very smart daughter, and a few years ago(she was 19) I asked her “what does it take to change a persons worldview?” She replied without hesitation “Crisis”.

In the big picture I can see how our government is systematically removing any potential crisis from peoples lives, and as a result, they place their faith Government over the individual and their own God given abilities.

I still work at the edges, and I think music may hold the key to reaching people.