Thanks for your comment.

That statistic comes from this book: http://shop.onemilliontracts.com/product.sc?categoryId=16&productId=105

It’s only $3.50, because it’s probably only about 50 pages long. I highly recommend it to you.

I’m very much in favor of relationship building. However, I’m not going to hide the gospel from anyone while I try to get them to like me. I have plenty of non-Christian friends, and I’ve witnessed to them, and continue to witness, because I care about them.

Also, I would assume that while the early church built many relationships, many continued to open air preach and proclaim the gospel by any means necessary.

Why do you accuse me of being a hammer? It seems like you might be jumping to conclusions. I asked you if you’ve ever given the gospel to a stranger, and never really got a straight answer. Maybe you’re a relationship evangelism hammer. Are you? Do you think that building a relationship and giving someone the gospel are mutually exclusive?

Thanks,
Bill

Sometimes Jesus built relationships with people, and sometimes he told them to turn or burn (Luke 13:5). The evangelism model we see in the Bible is over 80% of the time someone presenting the gospel to strangers.

Thanks,
Bill

I just want to thank you for visiting my site and leaving such a funny comment. You are great. So funny.

It’s a blessing that you have a heart for the people God has made, and you don’t want them to be separated from him.

Sometimes from within our Christian bubbles we have no clue how skeptical people have become to the “sales pitches” of Christian touting eternal life and escape from fire everlasting. It just sounds like another group with propaganda and an agenda to push–just like anybody else. Acorn, PETA, Greenpeace, MADD, you name it. What does ring true to the hearts of people is just what Jesus did, he developed genuine relationships with nonbelievers where they were at the time. Like Zaccheus in the tree. (He hadn’t done any repenting, but Jesus dined with him, and it was a great honor.)

As we build relationships where God’s love is truly coming out through us, trust is built, and God’s truth and plan of grace can be made known to them. How will they know we love them, and God loves them, if we aren’t loving them, and rather we are just telling them turn or burn?

Thanks for trying to tell God’s message of peace and reconciliation. The creation alone is testament to his abounding mercy and grace. Hope you are at peace, with God and all men.

Lisa

God Bless,
Beau

I’m sorry if you’re going through a tough time.

Defending what you believe about the Bible is throwing pearls to the swine? I genuinely want to hear what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe and how they answer my objections. I’ve tried to get several to do so, but no one has been able to. They usually get mad and say I’m not worth responding to. This leads me to believe that they don’t have an answer, or they’re in a full-blown mind control cult, or both.

Please, for your own sake, at least get John 12:40-41 (cross referenced with Isaiah 6:10, and whose glory John says Isaiah saw) and whether you’re dead in your sins or born again. I’ll be praying to the Almighty Creator Jesus Christ (John 14:14) for you.

Maybe someday a JW will be able to respond in kindness, with a reasonable answer (1 Peter 3:15).

Thanks,
Bill

I too, much like other readers, are not going to throw my pearls to swine. You seem a lot like the pharisees in Jesus day. Which reminds me, how could Jesus even pray to himself, if he himself were God? Logic people.

I’m strongly wondering if you can even read context? Following the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law did not bode well for God’s chosen nation.

But regardless, the bible tells us it’s okay to be angry, just not to sin. I am angry, very much so with you and YOUR unrepentant ways, so I shall take my leave.