Why do many Christians feel the need to preach?

Question

I know not everyone does this, which is why I am saying "many". If I am content, and happy with my life and my beliefs (Judaism), why do you feel the need to preach to me? I am not trying to be rude here, I would like an actual answer. Do you feel you are doing a good deed by trying to convert people, or is it another reason?

I don't go around preaching to people. I respect everyone's beliefs, because I know there are many perspectives to life, and that there are many possibilities out there as to how we were created. So..why?

hisglory- I read them because the whole concept interests me, which is why I am asking this question. Is being open-minded to much for you to handle?

Those who are saying they are trying to save me, I don't need saving. I don't believe God is going to threaten me to "hell and damnation" if I don't follow Jesus.

Yes I do feel I am being open-minded, because I actually want to learn why you guys preach, without receiving an attitude back. I guess you are just incapable of having an actual discussion.

Thank you to everyone who is actually answering the question with an informative answer.

hisglory - oh yes I do ;)

When someone tells me I am going to hell if I don't believe in Jesus, I think I have a right to know why they feel the need to do this.

Answer 1

Because it is how people interpret Jesus words. I prefer to preach through actions rather than words. Christians believed, in the past, the only way to go to heaven and be blessed by God was to be Christian. Some people may or may not believe that (I myself do not believe it) today.

I am a Roman Catholic, but would only try to convert other people if it was absolutely necessary for them to. Everyone should have their own choice in what religion they practice and should preach it through actions not words. Words mean little, and actions mean a lot.

Answer 2

I regret that I am unable to provide chapter and verse as I was raised Methodist instead of Baptist but there is an instruction in the Bible to go forth and preach the word to the world. Part of the reason why there are so many evangelists is that all must have a chance to accept or reject Jesus as a personal savior prior to the second coming.

Answer 3

Because if you don't belive that Jesus is the olny savior of the sinner and I don't tell you that the bible and all of it's scriptures are true and show you by the way I live then I have not shown Gods love to you and as a christian that is what I am supposed to I have not fallowed the bible. I would not shove my belifes on you I may tell you what I belive once if you would allow me to forceing my religon on you would just make you not want to talk to me or ever visit my church.

Answer 4

We are all living in the last days....

2 Timothy 3:1-5 says: "1 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away"

Here are some prophecies from the Bible , evidence that we are living in the last days...

Nations will rise against Nations ( MAtthew 24:7)
Millions of people have been killed in wars during the past century. One British Historian wrote: "The 20th Century was the most murderous in recorded history...It was a century of almost unbroken war, with few and bried periods without organised armed conflict somewhere." A report from the Worldwatch Institute states: Three times as many people fell victim to war in the 20th century as in all the wars from the 1st century AD to 1899."
More than 100 people have been died as a result of wars since 1914. Even if we know the sorrow of losing one loved one in warfare, we can only imagine such misery and pain multiplied millions of tmes over.

"There will be Food Shortages." (Matthew 24:7)
Researcher say that food production has increased greatly during the past 30 years. Nevertheless, food shortages continue because many people do not have enough money to buy food or land on which to raise crops. In developing countries, well over a billion people have to live on an income on a dollar or less a day. The majority of these suffer from chronic hunger. The World Health Organization estimates that the malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths of morethan 5 million children each year.

"There will be great Earthquakes" (Luke 21:11)
According to the US Geological Survey, since 1990 alone, an average of 17 earthquakes per year have been powerful enough to damage buildings and crack the ground. And on average, earthquakes strong enough to cause total destruction of buildings have occured yearly. Another sources states: "Earthquakes have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 100 years and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll."

"There will be....pestilences." (Luke 21:11)
Despite medical advances, old and new diseases plague mankind. One report says 20 well known diseases- including tuberculosis, malaria, and cholera- have become more common in recent decades, and some types of disease are increasingly difficult to cure by means of drugs. In fact, at least 20 new diseases have appeared. Some of them have no known cure and are fatal.


and in Matthew 24:14 says : "14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come. "

Thats the reason why we Jehovah's witnesses are preaching everyday from house to house, parks, internet, phones....coz Jehovah God's judgement to the wicked ones is so closed..we may never know, maybe today, tomorrow or next year. WE NEVR KNOW!!

And for us Jehovah's Witnesses, we are not selfish, we want, as long as theres time, we can teach people and warn them so you will be save from judgement...

Answer 5

God is not threatening you. It is a mere warning. NO, God is not gonna send you to hell. You have that ability all your own.
Example: If I knew your house was on fire with your family in it and didn't tell you. How would you feel? Everyone should think of it that way, Notice, I said "IF"

Answer 6

Why do you ask questions, or read the questions that are answered by preaching?

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Do you feel you are being open-minded by asking this question, or is it another reason?

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I feel we are having an extended communication, don't you?

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That's great! Then maybe you can tell me why preaching is so important to you.

Jesus said that not believing, in God first, but that then, that God was reconciling man back to himself through him, Christ, is condemnation. And the condemnation is that their, the unbeliever's, deeds are evil. He goes on to say that he that doeth truth, not good, but truth, comes to God that he may show what God has done in him, by saving him and being merciful to him. But if we don't want to turn from our sin then we remain in it and bear the wrath of God against the sin in us, because we refuse God completely if we refuse the truth. Truth is a person, the person of Jesus Christ.

Wouldn't you want to warn someone if you knew what they were heading for, and you knew that there was hope?

Answer 7

The final command Jesus gave his followers is recorded at Matthew 28:19, 20. There he said: "Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU. And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

The way Jesus taught his disciples to do this was by going from "house to house." (Acts 5:42) Jehovah's Witnesses follow this example in obeying Jesus' words.

Answer 8

Jesus did.

And you have to ask...Why?

He was sent by his Father to let us know about a change of direction. God's plans had not changed but we had run off the rails a bit, getting bound up with tradition.
We needed to be reminded of Daniel 2;44

Answer 9

The great confusion, they say they worship God, but Jesus seems to be the one calling all the shots.

Answer 10

Its part of some people believe that our purpose is to spread our beliefs. that is why? your supposed to preach to non believers. Even if your Jewish your not saved and your supposed to be preached to as some Jewish people believe that you can't be saved unless your Jewish.