Dear Charles,
This is an excellent approach. It seems that your relentless pursuit of a proper way has brought you to very much the same approaches that I found with a small group in the 1970s. We called ourselves “Allies of Truth,” and we took our message to the Jewish Community, as they entered the local Jewish Community Center, for various Israel-related events.
We always buoyed ourselves, in advance, with reminders that we were simply doing what we felt morally compelled to do (“Thy will be done”) – and so we were succeeding 100% in our day s goal, whether we “convinced” anyone or not. Our next priority was to discover and weed out errors of our own. We felt certain that so simple-minded a pursuit of truth and understanding would maximize whatever positive value we could have on others, and this repeatedly proved wonderfully true.
The thought of approaching “Christians,” armed with the ineluctable teachings of Jesus Christ, strikes me as an approach that cannot fail. The only condemnation under heaven is that men condemn themselves, clinging to false notions, in a false dread that our lurking error is too evil to acknowledge. Thus we are trapped in our own prison of error, condemned to it by our pride and our failure to accept the wholeness of truth, or the love of God. “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God.” The light – just the same as the light of day – does not punish error, but would only reveal it, correct it, “reprove” it. And we who strive to work within all the light we can find, constantly reproving our errors, with the help of God, will surely find that our work manifests his will.
I do not presume to “tell” you this, but only to hold it forward as an essential center of our common ground.
Thank you for your great work.
Dave Kersting
