Amiable:\u00a0<\/strong> Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable. Cordial; sociable; congenial: an amiable gathering.\u00a0 (Definition from http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/amiable)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWe can be having a perfect, amiable conversation going on but bring up Jesus Christ and salvation and heaven, and goodness gracious “Can you feel the winter chill, Harold?”<\/p>\n
Next thing you know we are facing the wind of hell, hard looks, stony expressions barely masking intense anger.<\/p>\n
I can remember approaching a neighbor a couple times about a Bible study, and he seems to be a good person, but it was all he could do to maintain a courteous attitude.\u00a0 He drew the line very clearly and warned me to proceed no further, all with a few words, a look and a tone.\u00a0 He didn’t want to turn his anger toward me if he could avoid it.<\/p>\n
This can be so intimidating and so sad.\u00a0 And often we back down. I have.<\/p>\n
But maybe we need to let God use this fearful barrier to give us some perspective.<\/p>\n
It really is a big deal. It really does mean heaven or hell for someone forever.<\/p>\n
So maybe I need to be willing to face the storm for the sake of a neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was thinking today about approaching different people in my life concerning their eternal destiny – family members, neighbors, the people in the neighborhood of our church. And I thought, wow, so much tension, so much emotion. Amiable:\u00a0 Friendly and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}