Yesterday our philosophy professor talked about phenamenology. Sorry about the spelling. I think he was trying to show his personal approach to "sharing his faith." He got his doctrite in Germany and I think he is around a lot of philosophy-heads so his approach is different. He started out by talking about faith as found in Hebrews 11 can actually be translated into "faithfullness" or "loyality" and that the faith discussed in that chapter does not have anything to do with belief but more to do with a way of life... being faithful to how God told us to live. Interesting.

So he sees "intellectual" discussion about religion as basically unfruitful. In large, probably, because he can see through all the intellectual twists one might do to argue for their faith. He witnesses by living in such a way that he is faithful to what God told him to do. He proposed that instead of trying to out-argue the other person he would, after some discussion and remaining interest, encourage the other person to "try on" Christianity for a month. Basically he would see if they would like to live as Christ directs in the New Testament and then see if they thought this was a good way to live. Good having the emphasis here because he describes God as the ultimate Good and sees us as gravitating to that Good. He then went on to say that the faith and works were pretty much inseperable (especially if having faith means living faithfully the way God told you to live) and that if someone started out living faithfully to the NT way of life then eventually their heart and intellect would follow.

What do you think?