Witness?
I remember reading about a missionary to a Buddhist country who spent years trying to convert the locals to Christianity and to build a chapel there.
He didn’t have much success in either endeavor and grew more and more resentful of the natives, blaming Buddhism for all his problems.
And then one day a group of the hated Buddhist monks arrived and labored until they had finished the Christian chapel for him — even though the only Christian they knew thought of them as an enemy.
This act changed the missionary forever.
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Not everyone we share the gospel with is against us.
Nor are they unloving...
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Nor are they unloving...
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Polarizing and making everything black or white with no shades of grey
in-between is what a lot of Christians have for a world view.
You are either in or you are out.
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You are either in or you are out.
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Jesus did not have a world view as such.
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Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
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Jesus viewed people as people to be enjoyed, eating and drinking with them.
Not as the "enemy."
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Not as the "enemy."
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Are you one of those Christians that will have nothing to do with non~christians?
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Do you isolate from others around you who are not saved?
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Do you know anyone who is not a Christian that you are friends with?
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Do you know anyone who is an atheist?
Have you befriended a gay person?
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Have you befriended a gay person?
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Deeds of kindness speak volumes...
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