> DAVEH: Which is why I am surprised at the length/depth some protesters will go to humiliate those they intend to convert. I've never understood that mentality. Do such methods really work in any small measure at all? I can only think they may > occasionally gain a convert, but it sure seems to me that it is the wrong method of doing it. For all the effort some protesters put into it, I would think they turn off far more people than they convert. But, that is just the opinion of an outsider. > How about some of you street preachers who are closer to the action.......Do such tactics pay off in the long run? Dean writes: DaveH There have also been converts that have come back to me thru the yrs that spoke of strong conviction of sin in their lives and they also knew how to get rid of that sin by receiving Jesus Christ and then walking in Holiness in living. There have also been converts who have accepted Christ on site-including Mormons . The good thing about spreading the Gospel is that we need to live close enough to God to speak His words-then our part is complete. God himself does the difficult part in converting the soul. We are simply messengers proclaiming his words-And with most people the love of Jesus is no problem-it's the part about stopping sin and pointing out that sin that people resent. Partly because nobody wants to give up sin and mostly because we dare to tell them their sins,which points to pride. People like DavidM that go out and risk all to help people escape hell are the lovers of mankind and the true Christians that exist in this world-people that do nothing to help have no love for the lost-and are motived by self- simply don't understand that God has entrusted with a precious gift of which they will give account for how they use that gift. It seem that everybody want but fail in work unto justification to a higher level of growth-and as God told those of old-my people perish from lack of knowledge. The sad fact is when we warn of a specific sin -those that are warned look upon us as hypocrites and by doing so make good, evil and tell us that they are not bad people -while still in their sins-making evil, good. The Bible says" Woe unto those that make evil good and good evil". If the Bible is God's word and one preaches/believes that then those unholy objects that cults use for worship- contrary to God's word should be exposed and giving a place of dishonor-as should every thing that exalts itself against God's word. The fact will always remain that there is only one truth-which is the Jesus of the Bible.
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