Gentle Persuasion: Creative Ways to Introduce Your Friends to Christ

by Joe Aldrich and Joseph C. Aldrich

Book Overview

Gentle Persuasion is an encouraging appeal to Christians of all ages and abilities to become part of God's strategy. Join Dr. Joseph Aldrich as he explains how cherry pies, hammers and saws, lawn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880702532
• ISBN13: 9780880702539
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Disturbing Yet Important Glimpse At End-Times Mind-Set

After reading "Gentle Persuasion" by Joseph Aldrich, I began wondering what a space alien might think of fundamentalist Christianity's relentless hoping for the snuffing out of human civilization, which to them would fulfill the so-called biblical "prophesies." Our author, whose mind has been hijacked and reprogrammed by the most powerful tool of psychological manipulation in human history, the Bible, would surely make a fascinating study for an extraterrestrial creature. Fundamental Christianity's most cherished wish for all of us: that the world will end in a blaze of nuclear glory, is horrifying indeed. What could possibly be more disturbing and Orwellian than listening to the type of happy double-speak, robotic sloganeering, redefining and appropriating mainstream words for creedal purposes, all of which are Mr. Aldrich's stock in trade within these pages. Mr. Aldrich's brand of evangelism is simple enough: Everybody needs HIS information, and at the same time, there is nothing anybody could ever teach HIM about the nature of existence and our universe. The scientific, logical and reason-based aspects of these grandest of questions are ones which Mr. Aldrich seems blissfully uninterested in. Deliver a freshly-baked cherry pie to the new neighbors! Help an overburdened co-worker at the office! Fix someone's broken car and don't charge them for the work! But don't perform any of these acts out of pure human kindness or good old-fashioned compassion; Perform them because every avenue for the author's style of stalking evangelism must be pursued. If all goes according to plan, the new recruit can be softened up by a series of initial contacts until, when the time seems ripe, he or she can be proselytized mercilessly into brainwashed submission. If you're worried that the author might take offense at such an unromantic description of his motives, let me put your mind at ease. He doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him. His deeply-indoctrinated psyche wouldn't allow it. And moreover, author Aldrich himself is one of the most shameless name callers and ad-hominem slingers I've yet come across among Christians. Here are a few examples of his bald-faced disrespect for wonderful people: 1. Assault the enemy. Page 842. ... if you've got the disease of carnality. Page 943. The proud, the pushy, the arrogant, the impure, the tainted, the cruel. Page 1024. Our non-Christian friends are doomed to everlasting darkness. Page 1115. Notice that it is their MINDS that are dysfunctional. Page 1126. Pray that our hearts will be moved by their lostness. Page 1127. They are intellectually handicapped. Page 1138. Most are religiously unsophisticated. Page 1169. Christians can smell sin on them. Page 11710. How do you recognize human "dogs" and "pigs?" Three clues are given: (a) their frame of reference is secular, not sacred. (b) they are insensitive to that which is of value. (c) They are dangerous. Page 119-12011. The prohibitions set up by the

It works for selling Amway too!

I found this book very helpful in not only making believers out of non-believers, but sending my Amway conversions through the frigg'in roof! I closed my poor aunt Selma four months and now she's putting $2k/month into my pocket today. Gold mine baby (or should I say TOUCHDOWN JESUS!)

Don't read in one sitting.

Aldrich's book is best absorbed a page or two at a time. Keep it next to your devotional literature and pray through it on a daily basis. It is an encouraging, inspiring, and thought-provoking look at the most important aspect of religious conversion-- the one-on-one connection established with another human soul. That is the hardest and most time-consuming aspect of witnessing, something the hit-and-run methods of evangelism are (perhaps purposefully) ignoring. Don't read this unless you want to see your in-laws, neighbors, boss, and co-workers become believers.