How to Witness:
Without Getting Trapped
HOW TO AVOID: Those “I Gotcha” Traps, Pits, Sticky Webs, and Snares.
Ever try to share your point, and then this happens: You get …
- Ambushed
- Trapped
- Shamed
- Condemned
- Mocked, Ridiculed, Scoffed at, Reviled
- Boxed In, Labeled, Categorized
- Or Your Mind just goes blank
How should you best respond?
- Answer the Question or the Attack with a Question
- This allows you to put your main points on the Table
- Allows you opponent to see (realize, confess, admit to) common ground
Check out this excellent clip:
First question: What do you mean by that?
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EX. What do you mean by evolution means so many different things
- You have to define your terms, right?
Second question: How did you come to that conclusion?
Third question: Have you ever considered _____?
- EX. have you ever considered that the evidence that could be you to point to a common ancestor?
- Could this be equally used to point to a common creator or common designer?