To some, even one question is "badgering."
Besides, when one of the 52,000 Mormon mishies comes to your door...you feel obligated to answer the doorbell or knock.
When someone posts an article on a Web site, who says you have to...
...Open it...?
...Even if you open it...
...Respond?
Christianity is proved by the life, not the lip. . .
Does that equate to silence? Or does the lip and the hands on a keyboard actually have a function? Did Jesus "error" when He "lipped off" to the legalists of His earthly era -- the Pharisees?
If we show more love we would be more persuasive for Christ.
Well, of course. Captain Obvious, eh? Who's going to argue with that?
Of course, the unspoken Q is: How do you define love?
When parents dealing with a rebellious teen into sex & substance abuse is sent away to a boarding school that is geared to addressed that, is that the "loving" thing to do? Perhaps. Perhaps not, depending in part upon the school.
My point is that "love" also includes "tough love." And sometimes...sometimes...we love people with the truth!
"Love...rejoices in the truth" (1 Cor. 13:6)
Sometimes I wish the mushy sentimental lovey types (& I'm not saying you're one -- 'cause I don't know you) would expand their understanding of "love."
I always wonder about this "love" talk. Jesus used a whip to drive out money changers, John the Baptist called the queen out, standing at the castle........really what is more loving than to work to rescue a person from a cult or to leave them there so they wont be offended. Sometimes the Word of God is offensive to the sinner.