Topic > Importance of Unity in Unity - 1190

According to a 2013 Barna Group research survey, 73% of born-again Christians agree they have a personal responsibility to share their faith; however, only 52% said they had actually shared the gospel at least once in the past year. Followers of Christ, myself included, have lost the goal of winning the lost to Christ. Some churches, along with some of their members, will go out of their way to preach and post signs against same-sex marriage, against abortion, against LGBT people, etc. How many of these will share God's love without condemning them? ? Jesus is our example. Not once did Jesus condemn or belittle a lost person he came into contact with. Here are just some of the people Jesus spent time talking to: an adulterous woman caught in the act, a woman who lived with a man who was not her husband and had been divorced five times before, a man who fervently killed followers of Christ and put others in prison, a man who robbed his own people and was despised by members of his own community, a man who betrayed him for silver, and those who mocked him as he died on a cross. Not once did Jesus condemn. Instead, he preached to them about their need for a Savior. He was more interested in winning their souls to Himself so that they could spend eternity with Him. What if Jesus had condemned them while they were still in their sins? You do