Comments on: Ted Haggard Hawks Software http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/ ehlo Thu, 21 May 2009 19:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jeff http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-6560 Jeff Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:32:48 +0000 http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-6560 Re: Tom In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka "Lighten up Francis". Re: Tom

In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka “Lighten up Francis”.

]]> By: Tom Murphy http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-6486 Tom Murphy Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:07:50 +0000 http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-6486 Vanessa - I have serious issues in "product evangelism" like yourself; As a Christian evangelical, too few of us have forgotten that we are merely vessels that God uses for His purposes. We don't "sell" Jesus, He already purchased us at Calvary. Our cause is to see God glorified, magnified, and made known to a dead and dying world. To use Christianese for our own personal advantage in the workplace would cause me to question why a person is doing so - For God's glorify or for their own pocketbooks. In fact, the one time that Jesus is enraged (flipping Temple tables) is when these types are using His Father's house for their own gain. In essence, Christians (followers of the Way, the Truth, and the Life) are merely here to share God's Word, Jesus Christ, with the world (John 1:!-2) with grace and seasoned with salt (Col 4:6). If those eternal souls reject, we are to dust off our sandals and move on to those that listen (Mat 10:14). His message should be our message and should be led by the Holy Spirit's guiding hand. The work of the Holy Spirit does not conflict with fundamental teachings of Scripture as initially understood in its original context in the location, to the audience, and by the human authors as noted by the early church Fathers and martyrs. As most other evangelicals understand, we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God written by the Holy Spirit through the vessels of human authors... At a more benign level, a corporation "evangelizing" their product has nothing to do with Christ, but are typically led by a loose conglomeration of lukewarm Christians who have not heeded the call to do so for Christ in their daily lives. As a warning to the lukewarm from Scripture, they might want to read (Rev 3:15-22)... Hope this doesn't come across too harsh...Just don't think that Scripture should ever be used willy-nilly... Abiding in Him, Tom Vanessa – I have serious issues in “product evangelism” like yourself; As a Christian evangelical, too few of us have forgotten that we are merely vessels that God uses for His purposes. We don’t “sell” Jesus, He already purchased us at Calvary.

Our cause is to see God glorified, magnified, and made known to a dead and dying world. To use Christianese for our own personal advantage in the workplace would cause me to question why a person is doing so – For God’s glorify or for their own pocketbooks.

In fact, the one time that Jesus is enraged (flipping Temple tables) is when these types are using His Father’s house for their own gain.

In essence, Christians (followers of the Way, the Truth, and the Life) are merely here to share God’s Word, Jesus Christ, with the world (John 1:!-2) with grace and seasoned with salt (Col 4:6). If those eternal souls reject, we are to dust off our sandals and move on to those that listen (Mat 10:14).

His message should be our message and should be led by the Holy Spirit’s guiding hand. The work of the Holy Spirit does not conflict with fundamental teachings of Scripture as initially understood in its original context in the location, to the audience, and by the human authors as noted by the early church Fathers and martyrs.

As most other evangelicals understand, we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God written by the Holy Spirit through the vessels of human authors…

At a more benign level, a corporation “evangelizing” their product has nothing to do with Christ, but are typically led by a loose conglomeration of lukewarm Christians who have not heeded the call to do so for Christ in their daily lives.

As a warning to the lukewarm from Scripture, they might want to read (Rev 3:15-22)…

Hope this doesn’t come across too harsh…Just don’t think that Scripture should ever be used willy-nilly…

Abiding in Him,
Tom

]]> By: david http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-1684 david Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:53:44 +0000 http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-1684 Vanessa - interesting perspective and article. I was looking into Product Evangelists and happened upon your site. Personally, I don't think there is as much to worry about as you imply. Surely, this is just a new and better targeted, well informed, grass roots method of PR? And, if an organisation's objective is to increase sales, profits etc, then why not resort to a different tactic? On the contrary, I think it's a brilliant concept. Business all to frequently borrows management methods from sport; time to borrow from the Bible. It's time to step outside the box and go back to basics: good old word of mouth from those can can speak eloquently to the masses. In religious terms, isn't this what characters from the old and new testament did? And look at their success. Kudos to the new evangelist. Vanessa – interesting perspective and article. I was looking into Product Evangelists and happened upon your site. Personally, I don’t think there is as much to worry about as you imply. Surely, this is just a new and better targeted, well informed, grass roots method of PR? And, if an organisation’s objective is to increase sales, profits etc, then why not resort to a different tactic? On the contrary, I think it’s a brilliant concept. Business all to frequently borrows management methods from sport; time to borrow from the Bible. It’s time to step outside the box and go back to basics: good old word of mouth from those can can speak eloquently to the masses. In religious terms, isn’t this what characters from the old and new testament did? And look at their success. Kudos to the new evangelist.

]]> By: Praise The Home Depot! « IndyNess http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-707 Praise The Home Depot! « IndyNess Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:34:52 +0000 http://techgrrl.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/ted-haggard-hawks-software/#comment-707 [...] The Home Depot! Jump to Comments I don’t know how much of you read my tech blog, but I posted over there about the use of evangelism in selling products and recruiting employees. Here’s [...] [...] The Home Depot! Jump to Comments I don’t know how much of you read my tech blog, but I posted over there about the use of evangelism in selling products and recruiting employees. Here’s [...]

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