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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val70 · 56-60

I was struggling long with the same question. One needs to realise though that the Church as such was created by Christ. One follows Christ as a Christian so there's no reason not to obey his commandments who were simple enough. Love God and love your neighbour as yourself. If you truly want to love your fellow human being then one needs to tell about the saving grace of Christ's message. There's no way in not doing that. Like I'm now doing. I don't tell you to join whatever church because that's a personal decision, but being part of such a gathering and sharing the bread is what makes us all one bread. Hope this helps a bit. Take care!

walabby · M

@val70 It's HOW you tell that makes the difference. Aggressive proselytizing only alienates people and just panders to one's ego. The most effective and moral way is to just be an example.

val70 · 56-60

@walabby Try being that here then. Just sit in the corner there :)

walabby · M

@val70 I see that you are on your ego trip. Enjoy...

val70 · 56-60

@walabby Nah, not with that profile pic. That's a real boomerang there. Enjoy here, newbie

KarenDuponteDurose1 · 51-55, F

@walabby @val70 Sitting still and leading by example does work with some. Ghandi, as an example.

But not everybody is Ghandi...

So you talk, you say what you think. You exchange dialogue.

🤔

val70 · 56-60

@KarenDuponteDurose1 Ghandi? Where did you get that impression? Gandhi’s philosophy was far from inaction; he viewed it as a highly active, strategic, and often aggressive form of resistance. He famously stated that inaction in the face of injustice was a greater sin than violence. Resistance, well, my own family lost several members in World War Two just by saving pilots or getting messages through to London. I'm sure that anyone will want that action again :)