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Bill and I have had lots of [[experience]] promoting the [[Urantia Book]] in schools we have been at. We've talked to people on occasion at times we thought were appropriate, and we got no where. ([[Laughter]].) We've struck out, but that is a [[question]] that I think I need to deal with and one which I plan to give some thought to over next few days/weeks/months, with the [[hope]] that someday, in the not too distant [[future]] somebody is going to ask me. (Laughter.) And will have a halfway [[literate]] answer to give them. (More laughter.) But as of tonight I haven't.

Bill and I have had lots of [[experience]] promoting the [[Urantia Book]] in schools we have been at. We've talked to people on occasion at times we thought were appropriate, and we got no where. ([[Laughter]].) We've struck out, but that is a [[question]] that I think I need to deal with and one which I plan to give some thought to over next few days/weeks/months, with the [[hope]] that someday, in the not too distant [[future]] somebody is going to ask me. (Laughter.) And will have a halfway [[literate]] answer to give them. (More laughter.) But as of tonight I haven't.

Aaron (Bill): My dear friend, before you seriously [[wound]] yourself with [[self]]-[[flagellation]], (Laughter.) let me say this. First of all, the [[fact]] that you are not normally worrying about this or [[practicing]] this in your mind is not to be taken as a [[negative]] quality. Rather you should be commended for your [[faith]] and [[trust]] that God will speak to you when those times should come. Secondly, you all suffer from the truism that "a [[prophet]] is without honor in his own country". [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_6] People have difficulty in changing their [[perceptions]] of others, or even of themselves, when true [[change]] has occurred. Sometimes it takes a long time for the change to be [[perceived]]. Others who know not their [[history]] and meet them can be much more [[accurate]] in their appraisals. So you may not find your tried and true acquaintances of many, many years asking this question of you, (and I speak now to you all), but rather a new-comer into your [[life]], when seeing your flavor and [[taste]] of [[divinity]] as [[contrasted]] with their [[usual]] experiences, bringing this question to the forefront. So [[rest]] at ease. Do not beat yourselves up, any of you. I am not bringing this question up to arouse any [[anxiety]] or cause you to feel [[guilty]]. Ultimately you must rely on the [[Spirit]] to speak, even as [[Jesus]] advised his original [[apostles]] not to worry about what they would say. I know we have three more yet to respond. So let us proceed. Ken, how would you reply to this question?

Aaron (Bill): My dear friend, before you seriously [[wound]] yourself with [[self]]-[[flagellation]], (Laughter.) let me say this. First of all, the [[fact]] that you are not normally worrying about this or [[practicing]] this in your mind is not to be taken as a [[negative]] quality. Rather you should be commended for your [[faith]] and [[trust]] that God will speak to you when those times should come. Secondly, you all suffer from the truism that "a [[prophet]] is without honor in his own country". [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_6] People have difficulty in changing their [[perceptions]] of others, or even of themselves, when true [[change]] has occurred. Sometimes it takes a long time for the change to be [[perceived]]. Others who know not their [[history]] and meet them can be much more [[accurate]] in their appraisals. So you may not find your tried and true acquaintances of many, many years asking this question of you, (and I speak now to you all), but rather a new-comer into your [[life]], when seeing your flavor and [[taste]] of [[divinity]] as [[contrasted]] with their [[usual]] experiences, bringing this question to the forefront. So [[rest]] at ease. Do not beat yourselves up, any of you. I am not bringing this question up to arouse any [[anxiety]] or cause you to feel [[guilty]]. Ultimately you must rely on the [[Spirit]] to speak, even as [[Jesus]] advised his original [[apostles]] not to worry about what they would say. I know we have three more yet to respond. So let us proceed. Ken, how would you reply to this question?

Ken: You had mentioned before that we would be approached in this [[manner]]. And this question has rattled through my [[thought]] [[process]] several times on how to respond to somebody. If somebody should come up and ask me that question, I would be [[honored]]. But in [[reality]] the honor would be to [[the Father]] for giving me the [[understanding]] and helping me build my [[faith]] in Him that I may [[share]] the three main attributes that I have repeated many times, [[truth, beauty, and goodness]]. I have talked to people before about the [[Urantia Book]] and it has basically turned them off. But if you can talk to them about God, about [[faith]], about loving, about understanding, talk to them—talk to their [[Thought Adjuster]] from the [[heart]].

Ken: You had mentioned before that we would be approached in this [[manner]]. And this question has rattled through my [[thought]] [[process]] several times on how to respond to somebody. If somebody should come up and ask me that question, I would be [[honored]]. But in [[reality]] the honor would be to [[the Father]] for giving me the [[understanding]] and helping me build my [[faith]] in Him that I may [[share]] the three main attributes that I have repeated many times, [[truth, beauty, and goodness]]. I have talked to people before about the [[Urantia Book]] and it has basically turned them off. But if you can talk to them about God, about [[faith]], about loving, about understanding, talk to them—talk to their [[Thought Adjuster]] from the [[heart]].