Elsie:
The message is that there is an answer to some basic questions such as: Ultimately, am I all alone? And Is this all there is?...Christians believe that those answers and many more are found in the pages of Holy Scripture and in the person of Jesus the Christ. Delivery of the message often starts with a conversation between people, but ends with a conversation between you and God.
And at others, a talking donkey has to get their attention: -some folks have noted a similarity.)
Being smote with a sword is really low on the list of things that I want to experience.
Even so, we ANTIs get smitten all throughout the day by folks NOT wanting to hear the message that MORMONism has spread thru the years; but we take it; knowing that the angel lies in wait for those caught up in MORMONism, if they do not change their ways.