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I leave them alone.

 

I'm with EWF and annsni...I'm at a point where, if someone hands me a tract or a flyer, for anything, I kind of look at it as that person saying "Here, you throw this away."

There are far more effective means of doing things than leaving a tract on someone's car. I'd actually argue that, in my experience with tracts, they're quite unbiblical (again, this is my experience, recalling the tracts I've seen).

Also, as annsni said, going onto another church's property, ostensibly during their own service, could easily be seen as harassment.

 

Why would do this? Who gets to say what is a false church?

 

"The evangelist was a Calvinist who reads a lot of MacArthur and Paul Washer books."

Heed what Don told you. You'll appreciate it later on in life.

Believe it or not, there might be a few Calvinists who read neither of these gentlemen.

 

Fundamentalist nonsense. If you showed up at my church started to stroll around the parking lot to put tracts on cars, I'd have you arrested.

 

Why would you focus on other churches, rather than just the community as a whole? If you are evangelizing the community, then surely you will be evangelizing the members of these other churches. If you target them, such as putting tracts on their cars, you are only closing doors. You are pushing them away instead of bringing them in.

 

So far the tally is 6-0 against this idea. I'll make it 7-0. This is a bad idea.

Wait for it. On Monday morning we'll hear about Evan6589's foray into "false church" parking lots, tract placement, and interactions with congregants.

 

Evangelist - It's "who," not "whom." :BangHead:

Also, while you might think it great that he/she reads all of Mac and Washer's books, how great is their knowledge base on the actual scripture?

 

And surprisingly, he will report some bad reactions from folks who just don't understand.

 

What kind of Bible are you using that has a Chapter 1 in Jude? :smilewinkgrin: (I'm just giving you a hard time)

I agree on Osteen. I have no use for him or his idea of church. He's more like Tony Robbins than like Paul.

What churches have profanity and sex acts on their websites? This is definitely not a phenomenon I'm used to here in my little corner of the southeast. (We could wander off topic and discuss the notion of profanity, as each language has evolved from prior languages and somewhere along the line men decided which words were good and which were bad...but that's another discussion for another day.)

According to some lines of thought, the only preaching that should be done is that "God is Love." While that's true, Paul taught that preaching requires reproving, rebuking, and exhorting. Most people don't like to reprove and rebuke. Osteen is one of those. According to him, his message is one of love. Apparently that means Jesus, Paul, and pretty much all of the apostles did not have love, as they taught judgment, Hell, and the need to repent of sin.

 

While we've nebulously discussed this point, just who is determining which church is false and which one isn't? Are you making that judgment call? Your friend the other evangelist? His team? Perhaps I've overlooked where this question was already answered, and if so, I'll toss out a mea culpa and we'll move on...