Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in a room alone with a dictator?
First, would you recognize and believe that he is a dictator?
Then would you wonder why you are having the meeting?
What can you say, or do?
What should you say, or do?
Are you safe (not that you can do anything about that)?
What is your responsibility to others under his dictatorship?
Do they know you’re having the meeting?
What personal sacrifice should you make for them?
What are your options?
Should you confront him (about his evil ways), when nobody else will?
Should you negotiate with him (compromise), knowing it does no good?
Should you shake his hand?
Should you shake him up?
What should you share about your meeting?
Will you have freedom to share after your meeting?
Who do you answer to about the meeting?
Where is your conscience?
What are your convictions?
Review these questions in light of the following meetings with dictators:
+++John the Baptist and Herod
+++Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s friends and Hitler
+++John Boehner and BHOB*
*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
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