When christians come up to you and try to talk to you about god?

Question

When the switch gears from normal convo to christian matters why do they all of sudden take that patronizing high voice like they're reading a story to a class of 1st graders. That happens to me 90% of the time.

I was referring to these random recruiter/ accoster people who approach me on my PUBLIC school campus.

Answer 1

I hate that! specially when they knock on your door (Ohhh and don't come with that Jehovas Witness bull... because in El Salvador Christinas, Catholics, Protestants are ALL alike and come knocking on doors saving your soul). To be honest I have my own believes and I don't bother them forcingly trying to convince them to join me! I thought I lived in a free country but appears that they forgotten the Constitution and replaced it with the Bible. A shame!!!

Answer 2

These people who are playing the apostles are usually annoying, I know..

Since I am already a Christian (Orthodox), I find their attempts quite amusing, but still sad.in a way. Since they advertise their faith to me, I also advertise my faith to them, and the amusing part is that they look confused about the fact that I don't accept them as the preaching part. I also ask them questions of Christian doctrine and they are really bad at it. They don't know anything about the history of the Church and things like that.

In your situation, I suggest to tell them that, if they don't respect you and stop the preaching, you will end up having a terrible opinion on whatever they are preaching, which is against the very purpose of preaching. If they insist, you can say: "Isn't it the time to remove the dust off your sandals and leave me alone?"

Answer 3

The bible says, it is hidden from the wise and prudent and given to babs in christ, I've talk to thousands of people about the lord , but I've tryed to be prad up, so I didn't make a fool out of my self Most people that try to talk to people about the lord, don't study the bible thay here it from some one else JESUS said to study to show you self approved.,,, More or less so you don't look like a idiot And prove all things 2 or 3 times

Answer 4

Because many, many Christians (to my undying shame) are assholes. They probably also think that you're not intelligent enough to understand them, because unfortunatly many christians do not believe that the command to "love thy neighbor" applies to them. But do try and forgive them. They're trying, in their own, round-about, not very kind or convincing way, to save your soul.

Merry Christmas.

Answer 5

They are just trying to get you to see God.

And public does not mean "without God", like it does for high school.

Answer 6

That tone they adopt is about 95.5% of the reason why I will never covert "God has a plan for you", well I'd sure as hell like my opinion to be a part of that plan, it's my life.

Answer 7

I know exactly what you are talking about, and I would know because my dad is a christian. I think they use that voice because that is the way a pastor speaks in church when they preach,

Answer 8

You are in the wrong company. The Christians I socialize with, haven't once discussed their beliefs with me and I respect them for that.

Answer 9

I know it, that's why I don't go to church. They do it to Christians too! It seems like their favorite sport is telling each other how wrong they are.

Answer 10

They should know how to properly witness ...



HOW TO WITNESS TO THE FAITH
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by Jim J. McCrea

The best witness of our Faith is how we live our lives. When people observe us as faithful Catholic Christians with genuine charity, they will say: "I want what he (or she) has," and then begin to open up and express an interest in our Faith and begin to ask questions.

It is true that we cannot badger people (whether stranger, acquaintance, friend, or family) with preaching on the Faith. That only puts up walls and shuts down further progress in their conversion (Protestant fundamentalists are prone to making this mistake). Above all, we must respect the liberty of others and use no coercion, whether financial, physical, spiritual, or psychological. For genuine faith grows only in the soil of liberty. Often Christians, in their attempt to convert others, perpetrate a subtle psychological violence on others (without consciously realizing it). This does great harm to the cause of the Faith.


We must develop a sixth sense as to what people are open to and are willing to welcome, and then act upon that. It is a principle in the science of psychotherapy, that the therapist will only reveal a dark area of his client's psyche when he or she is ready to accept it. Psychotherapy is an organic process in which dark areas are revealed only in bits over weeks, months, and even years - with one insight that has been integrated into the understanding forming the basis for the acceptance of a new one. This also is how people grow in the Faith, as their ignorances and imperfections are progressively purged, and as one truth and one grace builds upon another.

It is the same with evangelizing. Often much groundwork must be done before we even get to the subject of Jesus. It is often thought that, as Christians, we must have the courage to proclaim Jesus to all comers. This is supposed to prove our faithfulness and courage. But such a thing may be a mistake. Before they hear the doctrine of Jesus and His Church, many people may have to become experientially acquainted with the love and goodness of Jesus in our own lives (which may take some time). That way, Jesus and His doctrine are more than mere words, when we proclaim them, but are living realities that people want.


I find that with myself, I am inclined to say different things and different quantities of things to different people about the Faith. What I find that I can say to a particular person is never quite the same as with the next. With some people, the words flow freely. With others, there is an inhibition. I don't think that this inhibition is cowardliness, but my intuition telling me that that person is not open to the truth at the moment. My intuition (perhaps guided by the Holy Spirit), tells me what a person is open to and what he is not open to, and I seem to act upon it accordingly.


Great patience is often required for us, for some people are closed for a long time (perhaps most of their lives). Often our evangelization consists simply of *being.* The supernatural grace in our souls tends to radiate in and of itself to others, without us consciously saying or doing anything related to the Faith. This is a powerful form of witness that most Christians do not even know about. It is a most perfect form of witness because it is not us witnessing but God witnessing within us. This tends to open people up, so that in time they will express an interest in our Faith, and then we can begin to talk about it. This is why, as Catholics, we must use every means to grow in supernatural grace (with prayer, meditation, frequent confession, frequent communion, Eucharistic Adoration, mortification etc.). If we truly wish to convert the world, we must continually strive to grow in grace so that we supernaturally radiate more and more, to touch more and more people, more and more profoundly with grace.

So as we must witness, we must use prudence in how we do it.

On the other hand, we cannot go to the other extreme that many Catholic do, and think that our religion is private and evangelization is not appropriate at all. Where would we be today if the Apostles, Saints, and other great Christians of the Church thought that way?
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