When someone challenges me to change the way I think or act, they can expect to meet a well-organized resistance. They will have to punch through a layer of conceit that doesn’t want to admit that I may have just possibly been slightly, but very understandably, mistaken in this one instance.
Dear Tony, having watched your last interview with Dominic Steele regarding the Alpha course, i understand you are perhaps making a change to your Two Ways to Live tract in some way. In keeping with the sentiment of your Yeah-But" article, may i invite you to comment to me on a review i wrote near ten years ago on the 2W2L tract. The article can be read here.
Hi Tony, you had me at cognitive biases that hinder my ability to think well theologically. Also, I like how its hard to come back at this without a yes, but. 🙂 Anyway, it seems to me that yes buts are only bad if I am wrong. So, to flip your penal substitution illustration around, if I hear someone making, say, Jesus' mere sympathy the key point of the cross I want to say yes, but... I guess I'm wondering just how we decide to use or not use yes, buts given our cognitive biases?? Thanks, Richard
Now, I want to know more about that hobbyhorse. Please write more about the topic of the church, gathering, and worship....
Dear Tony, having watched your last interview with Dominic Steele regarding the Alpha course, i understand you are perhaps making a change to your Two Ways to Live tract in some way. In keeping with the sentiment of your Yeah-But" article, may i invite you to comment to me on a review i wrote near ten years ago on the 2W2L tract. The article can be read here.
https://www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au/?p=1501
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely Norm Day.
As my biblical counseling mentor often points out to counselees, “you’re buts keep getting in your way”.
Hi Tony, you had me at cognitive biases that hinder my ability to think well theologically. Also, I like how its hard to come back at this without a yes, but. 🙂 Anyway, it seems to me that yes buts are only bad if I am wrong. So, to flip your penal substitution illustration around, if I hear someone making, say, Jesus' mere sympathy the key point of the cross I want to say yes, but... I guess I'm wondering just how we decide to use or not use yes, buts given our cognitive biases?? Thanks, Richard