Members phkrause Posted October 31 Members Share Posted October 31 Whether Christians should use scare tactics to share the gospel brings into account the methods we use in evangelism. For some, gentle persuasion is the preferred method, while others turn to the fire and brimstone approach. While I don’t have any surveyed results for my hypothesis, I am fairly confident of one thing. Scare tactics typically don’t work. Scare tactics use fear as the motivator in an attempt to wake people up and get them to respond to the gospel. That’s why the fire-and-brimstone messages are the chief of all scare tactics. However, can we scare someone into the kingdom, and does God want us to? There may be differing opinions on using scare tactics to share the gospel, but do they truly work in the long run? https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/should-christians-use-scare-tactics-to-share-the-gospel.html? ps:Does this happen in the SDA church too?? Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B/W Photodude Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezeliel 33:11 Guess the Bible has some scare tactics in it! phkrause 1 Quote >>>Texts in blue type are quotes<<< ***************************************************************************** And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. --Shakespeare from Hamlet ***************************************************************************** Bill Liversidge Seminars The Emergent Church and the Invasion of Spiritualism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted November 2 Author Members Share Posted November 2 But I don't really take that as a scare tactic! Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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