People in Christian culture feel pre-witnessing apprehension whenever they step on a plane. Whomever they sit next to will have been placed there by the Almighty for the specific purpose of being witnessed to, right there, by them.
Christian culture regards airplanes as excellent settings for evangelism. Air travel invokes a heightened sense of mortality which can only help the earnest Christian's pitch. A popular tactic is to read a Christian-flavored book in hopes it will spark conversation. Another benefit of the airplane setting is your captive audience. The person on the receiving end of the witnessing is strapped in and held hostage. Should they say "I'm not interested in talking about this" however politely, the Christian will usually relent but often with a disdainful comment indicating they've just made the biggest mistake of their eternity.
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7 comments:
OMG that's so ironic b/c I have read how so many Christians cheat on their spouse when traveling. Better make sure to score Jesus points while on the flight before hiring a hooker after a long day at that Christian convention...
I am also a Christian but I do hate it when I sat next to these evangelists. These few are the ones who make all of us Christians look bad. I honestly feel better talking with an insurance agent than with these people.
I like the idea of this book. Travel really does help in expanding a person's understanding of different places and cultures aside from his own. Traveling will help bring down the cultural barriers that we have with other nations, which will result in a more unified and peaceful world.
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.
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I remember being in an air phil express flight and I have heard this woman trying to evangelize someone beside her. That must have been a really long flight for the latter. I have nothing against it but it was pretty amusing.
That's funny, Felicity. I remember being wary when it comes to air travel despite my prudential life insurance but I had that experience too and I forgot about being scared. Who wouldn't?
I make sure that I go to my surfing lessons annually and I fly all the way from Asia to Australia just to have it. My pet peeve when aboard the airplane is a motormouth, there are times I just really need to rest. Seriously, with all due respect for the concerned people out there, this is typically not the flight I would wanna have. Ever.
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