Is this winning persons for God or shooing people away from God?
Just yesterday I received a friend request on the social network and I after the usual careful analysis of the profile accepted the request. In no time there were series of questions as obvious as, are you a christian, do you have a bible and so on. Before I could make out where it was all leading to, came the question: are you born again! And I went straight ahead to unfriend the person and block the id. It was then I began to wonder, when I analysed the profile, I saw the Word of God posted all over and thought to myself, that it is going to be a person in the Lord. But with the ready break out of the judgmental approach, I was forced to draw myself back, not from the Lord but people who claim to be spokespersons of God. As Francis of Assisi would instruct, let us proclaim the message all the time, but use words only when necessary. Our actions, our attitudes, our approach to people should gather them together under one banner, not shoo them away from God who unites. Our God is a God of love and love is unity, let love reign, let unity be built on mutual respect and human dignity.