Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Top 10 Ways To Not Evangelize




Top 10 - how NOT to evangelize:

10 - Post a sign outside your church that says "Eternity is a long time to be wrong" or on the flip side just make sure that everyone knows that God is love and nothing else.

9 - Argue with someone about being right.

8 - Use violence or manipulation.

7 - Mistake social justice as the whole of evangelization.

6 - Scream into a bullhorn and use "going to hell" often.

5 - Avoid all controversial subjects so that others will like you more.

4 - Expect everyone to be at the same place you are, to see the world as you do, and to speak the same language you do.

3 - Don't do or say anything that might challenge you.

2 - Preach a false gospel (e.g., the health and wealth gospel, all religions are the same, etc.)

1 - Live a life contrary to the Gospel. No need to live it out.
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4 comments:

  1. stceolfrithtx10:55 PM

    My first thought was that Westboro Baptist sect

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  2. FrDarryl4:21 PM

    11. Starting the conversation, 'Have you accepted Mary as your personal mediatrix?'

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  3. Justin Michael Schwartzbeck8:08 PM

    Fr Darryl, that was funny. Although a lot of people might not get it.

    Just today I had a conversation with a Baptist about the papacy and a debate with an atheist about the evils of pornography. I guess this post came just in time.

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  4. Brian H. Gill1:24 PM

    Oh, wow!

    :D

    Thanks: I needed that.

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