Your Thoughts/My Thoughts: “Pushy” Christianity

My Thoughts/Your Thoughts

Last Friday I posed these questions: Can someone be too forceful during an evangelistic encounter? Is it possible to “shove” salvation down someone’s throat? Where does one draw the line between tactful and tacky?
null Unfortunately, readers of this blog chose not to answer, but I did ask this question to other evangelists and here is what they said:

One man said this:
According to Luke 14:22-23 (NASB) “And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ “And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.”
null We are to “compel” them to come in.

According to Websters, this is what compel means: to drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

If we are obedient to the command to “compel” them to come in, it sounds to me like we [should be] doing that. However I would dare not rob the influence of the Holy Spirit that does the “compelling” through us!

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On Location W/The Way of the Master

Pics

A few members of our evangelism team had the rare privelege of being asked to help out on the set of an upcoming Season 3 episode of The Way of the Master television show. What a blessing to be a part of the crew that is bringing Biblical evangelism back to Christianity—and might even start

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Martyrs: A Few Unknown Stories

Martyrs

Any chance of this happening to you when you evangelize in America? I think not… at least not until the next presidential elections… Here are a few of the lesser known Christian martyrs from previous centuries: Vitalus, A.D. 99— He was buried alive in Ravena, Italy for his faith. Wolfgang Binder of Scharding, 1571— He

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