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What do you think?

So since I've been growing and learning more about my faith, and Christ, there's been a lot of discussion at my church around the idea of preaching to others.

This conflicts me greatly, as I've said in the past, I used to be Christian in name only and used to very much live by "to each their own" "live and let live" etc etc. of course now I've come to actually follow the beliefs I once claimed, I understand we as a people want to give as many people a chance as we can to come to know Christ.

My question is this, all those who don't believe, I'm really curious, if you believed there was a chance we were in fact correct, and we by all means could be,

What would you see as worse?
1. Christians pushing more and more to try and convince and convert more and more people?

2. Or, if Christians , with all our beliefs in that
You need to follow Christ to be saved, if we just excluded ourselves as a religion, and kept to ourselves?

I ask because I by all means want to give as many people a chance to know Christ as I do,
But I also remember those feelings of just wanting to keep my beliefs to myself and not really caring what others believed or wanting to bother others(I was not the nicest person lol 😅)

Edit: sorry I think I wrote this poorly, I'm not trying to claim or imply anything religious, I'm more asking a question around being made to make a choice you don't want to make, or being in a situation where your not even aware about a choice to Begin with (basically getting a bad end without being told a bad end exists)
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4meAndyou · F
I BELONG(ed) to a church that believes in preaching and conversion. Even if you were already a Christian, you weren't the CORRECT kind of Christian unless you belonged to their church. THEIR particular interpretation of Christianity was the ONLY kind that could possibly be saved.

What really bothered me about the proselytizing was that is was pretty darned RABID and super annoying. I watched time and time again as these super eager beavers were SO anxious to "save" people that they actually drove people away. They got scary.

So I vote for live and let live.

Use your own personal LIFE as an example, to DEMONSTRATE to others, in a quiet and beautiful way, what a TRUE Christian really is.
GeminiDuality · 31-35, M
@4meAndyou that's what I like about my church, I don't see much of that, sure a few of the oldies don't like how I sometimes seem a bit ... different to the others, but no inter protestant bickering.

I'd hate anything like that, and that's why I initially wasn't part of a church and why I wasn't really a true Christian until recently, because I hated how petty some churches and Christians were,

I still want nothing to do with "what form of Christianity is best" I became a Baptist because they seem the most chill tbh
4meAndyou · F
@GeminiDuality Wait till you meet the fundamentalists!!! 🤣🤣🤣
GeminiDuality · 31-35, M
@4meAndyou oh they sound like people I would be happy to.....not have conversations with lol 😅