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Originally Posted by Ohio
Then apparently you disapprove of preaching the Gospel to the likes of Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, Buddhists, idolaters, etc. Who then are the select few qualified to hear your gospel? Only the already saved?
There is a troubling statement of exclusive Brethren affairs in the opening of C. H. Macintosh's Treasury which laments their own abandon of the gospel. Here he sadly rebuts the common Exclusive "wisdom" of his day. Our divine Master called upon sinners to repent and believe the gospel. Some would have us to believe that it is a mistake to call upon persons dead in trespasses and sins to do anything. "How," it is argued, "can those who are dead repent? They are incapable of any spiritual movement. They must first get the power ere they can either repent or believe."
What is our reply to all this? A very simple one indeed -- our Lord knows better than all the theologians in the world what ought to be preached ... Our Lord preached repentance, and He commanded His apostles to preach it; and they did so constantly. |
I was not talking about preaching the gospel. I was talking about making friends. Oh, unless the only way you know how to preach the gospel is to pretend to be someone's friend - "Friendship evangelism". You could do one better, like
leastofthese has done you could pretend that you have a group of Muslim friends then pretend that they would offended if they were compared to the Local Church. Maybe you have pretend Muslim friends that you preach the gospel to, I don't know.