I have heard so many times this statement:

You must be a good testimony to other
OR
Don't stumble others.

I just find that this statement is an exucse for people to practice religion in a worldly sense. I just do not really feel that people who made these statement really mean what they say. I think what they say is, "I got to earn it for God." or "See how superior I am compared to you, O non-Christians"

I love this guy. He is smart, handsome, passionate about his job and a wick sense of humour. He would stab at the chicken chop cursing and swearing at his opponent. He had a foul mouth and swears profusely when he is angry.Perhaps that is the very thing that i do not want to emanulate.

Discipleship

Nietzsche Friedrich once said," All truth claims are power play."

I agree 99%. This is what happen if we keep pushing people to evangelise and make disciples when in the first place they have not fully grasp, experienced God's love and grace. How is it difference from other religions. This is somewhat akin to MLM. For responsible distributors, they would use the product, convinced of its effectiveness and then recommend other to purchase the products. For the profit hunters, they would simply take the words of the trainers and then regurgitate to their friends without much thinking. For the latter, profit is what they are looking for. This is the same for Christians who do not fully experienced God's grace, they repeat scripted lines and verses, hoping to convert people, it is really what Nietzsche claimed to be,"power play", the desire to exert control and dominance over others.

Real truth surrenders that exact control and dominance to others and subject himself to others like what Jesus done on the cross, where he laid down his life for his friends on the cross. Which religion in this world have its leader died for its believers?

This is what Jesus say to the pharisees:

¹⁵"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

¹⁶"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.' -Matthew 23:14-16 (NIV)

It is really not a matter of how long he is a Christian or not. It is the issue of whether he had experience or understand the difference of God's grace in his life. So don't tell me the disciple anyone in the future unless I am totally experience God's grace and mercy in my life, otherwise it would just be a case of power play and struggle.

The difference between animals and humans

One question was asked whether animals have feelings or not. To this, i tend to side with the atheist stance and say NO. Animals have no feelings because they are not moral creatures. Their so call emotions is a manifestation of complex neural activity that we humans perceived as emotions.

Does that make me an animal hater? No. To me, we still need to show love and compassion to animal as they are God's creation. His creations are far more perfect than ours and our love towards the animals should be an expression of the love for God's creation. However, to say that animals have emotions, I would not agree. This would unequivocally make animal having the same status as humans. This is so stupid because when Johnny the kid and Johnny the puppy stand in the middle of the road and you are driving the car. As what Mark Driscoll would say, the puppy goes. That just too bad. But I would save the kid first.

Humans are the only creatures that had God breathed into his nostrils and are created in His image. We are higher than the animals but lower than God. We are moral creatures and have emotions. Please do not tell me that animals have feelings and emotions.