Christian evangelism is what many types of Christians do. Sometimes moderate Christians do nothing worse than telling you where they worship and the like. If you agree to go to church with them the Christians are pleased but if you don't feel like chuch you are under no pressure, that is not a problem.
Problems with evangelism
This article focuses on the types of evangelism that cause problems. Mainly the worse evangelists you come across are Christian Fundamentalists. Those types of Christians feel they have a duty to persuade other people to accept Christianity or to force their views onto other people. Evangelists may try and talk to you, when you're not interested in religion and would rather be doing something else. Someone you've never seen before may accost you and start telling you about Jesus.
More extreme Christian evangelism promotes the harmful hellfire type of Christianity and sometimes alienates more moderate Christians.
Evangelical methods
- Christian evangelists too often have an arrogant approach summed up as, “Christianity as my Sect teaches it is right and if you don’t agree you must be wrong and a sinner.
- Another evangelistic approach is to tell potential converts thay they are sinners, however hard they try they can't avoid being sinners so people should crawl and beg for forgiveness to try and avoid hell.
- If unsaved people are suffering tell them you are sorry about their pain but it is much more important for them to stop sinning. [1]
Alientation from Christianity
Fundamentalist Christian evangelists of the type who preach at strangers typically believe that they are saved. Most other people including luke warm Christians, even most regular church goers are unsaved. The Christian evangelists force their message onto people who would rather not be preached at and this alientates many luke warm Christians and even alienates potential church goers. Further less concerned Atheists become more active and more militant after being forceably preached at, militant atheists stay militant.
Christian evangelists are typically undeterred if they alienate people. Christian evangelists believe that they save small numbers of people they preach at while critics are unsaved before and after alienation, no serious change here.
The small numbers saved are afterwards typically told to evangelise themselves and are likely to donate or tythe to the evangelising group. All this perpetuates the Christian evangelist Memeplex while continuing to alienate less extreme people.
Persistent Christian evangelism
See the main article on this topic:Persistent Christian evangelism
There is another type of Christian evangelism where someone you have to meet regularly keeps forcing a Christian message onto you. That can be much harder to deal with since you can’t just walk away.
See also
- A Christian imagines this is proof of Christianty
- Bible thumper
- Christian evangelism outside western countries
- Open air evangelism
- Lying for Jesus
References
External links
- Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer
- Their Other "Dirty" Linen: Evangelism's Quest to Conquer the World This is about missionaries exploiting vulnerable Third World people.