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Unread 15-09-2006, 10:26
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Re: Christian FIRST Group

Let me clarify the term respect as Mike stated in reference to our God. That doesn't mean we're going to force you to believe it, but we would certainly not appreciate anyone coming and throwing religious slanders out all over the place.

And it seems to me like a lot of the complaints against such a group are formed along the mindset that we would either be pushing into the other groups or separating us from them. That is not the goal. We don't want to be separate from FIRST in any way. We're there as FIRSTers first, then as anything else, in this case as a brotherhood of Christians. It's not like we're a church group invading a FIRST event, since we are still part of the FIRST community. We also wouldn't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable by forcing our views on them. At times that even destroys our witness more than anything else by scaring them away from any possible belief, which is something we would never hope to do.