Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in a room alone with a dictator?<\/p>\n
First, would you recognize and believe that he is a dictator?<\/p>\n
Then would you wonder why you are having the meeting?<\/p>\n
What can you say, or do?<\/p>\n
What should you say, or do?<\/p>\n
Are you safe (not that you can do anything about that)?<\/p>\n
What is your responsibility to others under his dictatorship?<\/p>\n
Do they know you’re having the meeting?<\/p>\n
What personal sacrifice should you make for them?<\/p>\n
What are your options?<\/p>\n
Should you confront him (about his evil ways), when nobody else will?<\/p>\n
Should you negotiate with him (compromise), knowing it does no good?<\/p>\n
Should you shake his hand?<\/p>\n
Should you shake him up?<\/p>\n
What should you share about your meeting?<\/p>\n
Will you have freedom to share after your meeting?<\/p>\n
Who do you answer to about the meeting?<\/p>\n
Where is your conscience?<\/p>\n
What are your convictions?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Review these questions in light of the following meetings with dictators:<\/p>\n
+++John the Baptist and Herod<\/p>\n
+++Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s friends and Hitler<\/p>\n
+++John Boehner and BHOB*<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
*Barack Hussein OBama\u2014Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: \u201cBeware of sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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