not wrong

I wonder what it is that scares me about people who are convinced that they are right (and are equally convinced that I couldn't be right as well). I wonder if they scare other people too? Or if other people are less intimated as maybe they have more confidence that it doesn't matter if others want to think they're right and i'm not. I'm pretty OK at not taking it to heart, tho it can be tricky when it feels as if you're in a minority of one in a room full of people.

I can get doubtful of my right to participate when I hear people speak and make claims on my behalf that I don't share, such as “the most important thing for us as Christians is that we bring people to Christ” and I momentarily think perhaps I'm wrong to say I'm a Christian. But then I remember that that is their interpretation and I have my own. My own interpretation might be that to be a Christian I want to be Christ like and love as well as I possibly can. So for me it matters not a bit if others want to be a Christian or not, I have no compulsion to make them see things from my perspective, or insist that my way is the only way. For others that is THE most important thing, that if a person is not “saved” then there simply is no point. Does that make either of us wrong or right – not in my eyes. It's emotive stuff, so listening can get hard. Bringing people together to discuss it is a good thing, tho only if it then empowers us to go out with more awareness that we're not all the same – not if we then spend a whole lot of time justifying ourselves.

We're a funny bunch :)