dear imar,
Your rhetoric resonates well within the walls of the old Aofg building.
Your use of language, particular to those who sit beside you on the pews, does NOT compute, with all of those on the sidelines, because it would bring from memory, all those ‘humahumanukkahumahumaahum’ TV preachers, and their minds will just click to the ‘off’ position.
Also. you might not know, they recently aired on a cable channel, ‘The Wind and the Lion’, a movie where a guy claimed to be ‘the defender of the faithful .... mohammedans. ‘Defender of the faithful’ means you are going to beat the crap out of someone who says you are full of it. Change that term, and you might do something.
Billy Graham never hit anybody over the head with their weighty Collegiate New International Version, with their name embossed on it, and all the pages still shiny 5 years after purchase, and all those stick-on tabs still new.
I remember a sign, placed above the exits of the sanctuary, “Your mission field begins here.” You can’t make folks envious, when you’re preaching. You have to go through, ‘Show and tell’.
Now that you’ve got that out, do you feel better?