Why do some posts have nothing but preaching-at?

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atwhatcost

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I keep seeing posts that look like someone is asking a question, but when I click on it, it's really someone preaching at me. (Not "to," "at.") I'm a writer. I also used to do marketing and communications, so I'm big into "know your audience." The audience on this forum is "people willing to debate biblical concepts." The preach-ats often don't have Bible in them, just churchy stuff, something kind of like a sermon, and some like lesson plans with cheat sheets. I'm not that audience. More so since I don't fit into most of the parameters of whatever is being preached-at.

Can someone explain the logic of preaching at people who are most likely not the audience? I'm new, thus confused (again. lol) I suspect there is logic, but I'm just not getting it.
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I am not sure I am following your question. Could you rephrase it?

i used to debate heavily in other worldly forums and except for some doctrinal threads on here this forum seems to be a very nice community.
 

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I know what she's talking about, just this morning I was thinking there's too many teachers on here, lots of people want to be a teacher :D
 
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I know what she's talking about, just this morning I was thinking there's too many teachers on here, lots of people want to be a teacher :D
LOL...that is probably true...I always thought I was a natural born teacher that got a bit sidetracked. Still I teach a lot...I can't help it God designed me that way.

The most important thing probably that a teacher has to get right is the ability to research things. Researching and meditating then checking against the bible all go hand and hand and will create the best teachers.

Christianity has been a little crippled by its' dogma...Dogma is most likely given to ensure a code for spiritual birth but God never meant for it to take away our abundant life.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people teaching the doctrine of condemnation in Christianity and you have to look out for those people and correct them or they will stunt your spiritual growth and their own and anybody they rub up against.

All these teachers may be self correcting by rubbing ideas off each other.

That's how life is.
 
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crossnote

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I've been down on Main St. listening to the street preachers preach AT the light posts, the bus stop signs and the news paper racks, not expecting much response in return...perhaps this is the sort of thing 'atwhatcost' is referring to.
 
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Well, does not the word preach mean to proclaim?......anytime one quotes scripture and or discusses their view in scripture they are in essence proclaiming (preaching).......I suppose almost everyone on this site is here preaching something in one form or another......do you mean the long rambling pointed posts?
 

posthuman

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sometimes, it is just insights that people want to share.



 
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I've found that many people honestly don't know how to live a sermon. What you see may be all they can manage... and they want to feel they are doing God's work.

Why do you think those "tracts" thrive?...... You know, the ones most people just throw away without even reading. It's a mentality similar to that of the JW's. (Ever had one of them take the time to get to know you, even a little bit? No, you're just a number to them.)
 
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BradC

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Preaching the gospel in season or out of season is going to catch people off their guard. God is going to hit them with a message they are no prepared for. This is how the Holy Spirit brings conviction into the heart of the hearer. This is why it is important that we exercise faith and preach as we have been called to do. Just imagine how you may have responded to God if he called you to preach in a certain far away town and told you that no one would respond and they would actually curse you for bringing that message to their people (kinda like Jonah and the whale and his call to Nineveh). Would you leave your family, your job and your friends or would you stay right where you are at because God is good?
 

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I've found that many people honestly don't know how to live a sermon. What you see may be all they can manage... and they want to feel they are doing God's work.

Why do you think those "tracts" thrive?...... You know, the ones most people just throw away without even reading. It's a mentality similar to that of the JW's. (Ever had one of them take the time to get to know you, even a little bit? No, you're just a number to them.)
When first married to my husband Mike....we were very young teenagers.... a couple JW guys stopped by the house and we actually made friends with them....maybe because we were kids and friendly first I don't know but they came to visit us and we had fun with them....no one converted anyone to each others religion but we became friends.....lol
 
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I like the Jehovah Witnesses though I don't know much about them or their doctrine.

The reason why I like them is that Hitler persecuted them.

Street preaching is the bravest kind in my book and the Jehovah Witnesses go door to door carrying their message.

The Jehovahs only answer to God and Hitler knew that he couldn't control them from possibly preaching ideas that would go against him so he threw them in prison.

And I think the Apostles went door to door though the New Testament makes it seem like city to city but that is like door to door.

Christ is the Door.
 
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I have attended their meetings (JW) and, whenever I was there, no place for saying the things my mind thought, but what their magazines said so, just for me, there is no room for freedom.

Their people look fine. I had some of those friends, but I can chew a thing to make it the way another person wanted.
 
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The spirit of the Laodicean age is believers in the church being content and comfortable having much and when God calls them to buy of gold tried in the fire, they sit back and say, 'that's not for me' or 'I have been there and done that, let someone else do it'. This is the attitude of the Laodicean believer that is neither hot or cold. They like the social atmosphere of love and acceptance but to lay down their life and respond to the call of God they are lukewarm. They want recognition in the church but they are passive and indifferent toward God's calling.
 
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I know what she's talking about, just this morning I was thinking there's too many teachers on here, lots of people want to be a teacher :D
I think what AWC is getting at is this forum is actually turning into a country club, where only certain people[teachers] are allowed to discuss anything and then if you disagree the teacher pets call you a troll or worse and then set out to assassinate you. They then protect the [teachers] with rep points. The teacher pets are then protected by the [Teachers] and can say anything to anyone without any check.

This used to be a good place to come to , but now it just is shouting match over the same topics that have been hashed and rehashed and do not need to even be discussed anymore.
 
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The spirit of the Laodicean age is believers in the church being content and comfortable having much and when God calls them to buy of gold tried in the fire, they sit back and say, 'that's not for me' or 'I have been there and done that, let someone else do it'. This is the attitude of the Laodicean believer that is neither hot or cold. They like the social atmosphere of love and acceptance but to lay down their life and respond to the call of God they are lukewarm. They want recognition in the church but they are passive and indifferent toward God's calling.
You've thrice mentioned, "call". What, specifically, does that mean to you? What does it look like on a Tuesday morning of any particular week, say?
 
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Here is a pretty apt description of the Jehovah Witnesses set to music:

Shaken
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3KHPIZOdrjI
Since you´ve said U like JW, I can say I like them, except when they wnated me to be another way.

Yesterday, against my wish, I worked with a commited Catholic and with several unbelievers. Do you know why JW are physically unwilling to work with unbelievers?

I gonna get the MP3 of that video (Thanks) ;)
 

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I've participated on better than 30 religious internet forums since 1997 and
noticed almost right away that there are basically two categories of folk
hanging out on them. The first category is easily the largest. It consists of
gossips, critics, and chit-chatters. The second category is quite a bit smaller
than the first. It consists of serious Bible students.

"Many are called; but few are chosen." (Matt 22:14)

The reason that few are chosen is because so few are worth the trouble.

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I've participated on better than 30 religious internet forums since 1997 and
noticed almost right away that there are basically two categories of folk
hanging out on them. The first category is easily the largest. It consists of
gossips, critics, and chit-chatters. The second category is quite a bit smaller
than the first. It consists of serious Bible students.

"Many are called; but few are chosen." (Matt 22:14)

The reason that few are chosen is because so few are worth the trouble.

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No, few are chosen because they refuse to count the cost or get ahead of God and find out ministry is not about them