re: #77 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Evangelicals are all about that in-your-face, turn-or-burn message that always rubbed me the wrong way. It’s like they think you can’t be converted unless they’re holding a (metaphorical or literal) gun to your head. I’m not sure whatever happened to the concept of, “Let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in Heaven.”

This. But then, I think lots of the actual message of Jesus (especially when he’s channeling his rabbinical side) gets lost because people - believers and non-believers - want to think he’s only about the hyperbolic “hard sayings”.

I tell the people at church that the only way to evangelize is to be a Christian. When you do it right - when you live in love of god & neighbor, love mercy, do justly & walk humbly with god - only then people will say I want to live like that. This has nothing to do with abortion or LGBTQ or even belief vs non-belief. It is everything to do with this:

And that is where those who call themselves “evangelical” are failing.