Christopher and Agnes

Thank you thank you so much for the expert technical assistance that you gave me today my brother.

I believe in an earlier post you mentioned that one of the best things you or I can do is to live our lives as righteous Christians -- and this will hopefully influence people in some kind of positive fashion.

But will such an influence always work out "positive"? Let's take this hypothetical example: Agnes (the agnostic) meets Christopher (the Christian). Agnes is, for the sake of argument, married. Now Agnes feels that she made a mistake in getting married but that was a long time ago, now Agnes and her husband have children and the family is smoothly functional, but Agnes feels that she is "living a lie".

Agnes meets and talks to Christopher, Agnes is impressed with the teachings of honesty that Christopher expounds as fundamental to the Christian doctrine. She now feels an "urge" to be honest with herself and everyone else. So impressed and so distressed is she at living a lie, Agnes leaves her husband -- now she lives alone, with all the complications of two parents living apart that one would expect.

What has the Christian accomplished in this? By living a righteous life, on the face of it, it appears that Christopher has encouraged Agnes to sin.

Current song: "Love And Regret" -- Deacon Blue