Benjamin I was going with the Biblical tradition

Nothing moves me more than 2 ex christians taking care of their christian colleagues sensitivities

Christine W practices that same kind of spirituality as well

My understanding of DE, from my reading of the article and subsequent comments, is that the deeds are done with the beneficiaries not even aware their benefactors are Christian

Yes that is correct. Not to be too cute- we got this idea from Jesus.

Check out the number of times he failed to properly self identify “this miracle was brought to you through yoru friends in heaven” – with the woman at the well , Zaccheus and even the Centurion.

Along those same lines check out all of Matt 25 and then help me understand why a God who was an anxious as getting the credit ( you imply he desires) would spend 30 years doing nothing and then only 3 trying to communicate his message( and not doing such a great job of that – all 12 quit the cause)

Benjamin I was going with the Biblical tradition

very culturally sensitive of you, by the way, to use the masculine pronoun for God. Way to go =)

You know, for someone who is almost an athiest, you sure are good at explaining this Doable Evangelism idea! Wow…

If the doer pushes the point about the Holy Spirit leading it will sound like “I didn’t do it just because I like you or because I care – I did it because I was told to”. That will disappoint the person they did the good deed for and may even make him/her feel manipulated.

I’m using that idea from now on. Very simple and powerful.

It’s pretty hard to hide being a Christian from anyone you spend time with. It’s going to come up somehow – what’s on your bookshelf, how you spend Sundays, what else you do outside work. If they like you they’ll be curious about your life.

But also, DE presupposes God wants to be found. Which means he can be trusted to be part of the process, creating opportunities when the time is right.

This is perhaps the most simple and profound observation on this entire string. Beautiful. Thank you, Helen.

If the doer pushes the point about the Holy Spirit leading it will sound like “I didn’t do it just because I like you or because I care – I did it because I was told to”. That will disappoint the person they did the good deed for and may even make him/her feel manipulated.

The only way those words can be positive (imo) is if there’s enough relationship by that time for the person to believe they are liked/cared for and so they’ll heard it as a both/and, not an either/or.

How are the unsaved eventually to open the door for us to share more information about Christ if they don’t even know it is He who we represent? Why would they bother to ask us about Him if it isn’t known at some point we are Christian?

It’s pretty hard to hide being a Christian from anyone you spend time with. It’s going to come up somehow – what’s on your bookshelf, how you spend Sundays, what else you do outside work. If they like you they’ll be curious about your life.

But also, DE presupposes God wants to be found. Which means he can be trusted to be part of the process, creating opportunities when the time is right.