Do our lives speak for us?

Do our lives speak for us as Christians to draw the world to us?

No. 

The world has religion and they try to act moral. So what seperates you from them as a Christian? The message. 

And, looking like the world is one reason the world and its culture invaded and influenced the church. People just opened the doors and invited the unsaved in, when the Church is the redeemed and only for the local body of the redeemed ones.

On the topic of Assissi...

Jesus was the WORD. God "spoke" the world into being. A moral person can lead an exemplary life, but go straight to hell.

If you think "the way we act *speaks* better for us than many words", you are wrong in the main sense and heres why, (so take it into consideration),...

That quote is used 99% of the time by the lazy, and quasi Christianity crew, because they think it takes the responsibility of telling the Gospel off of them and on someone else.

As far as mannerisms and behavior, most of the church are "growing in sanctification" which means 1. there are many in the church unsaved acting moral but sinning like crazy and that's their witness to the world; just another moral hypocrite. 2. While among those who are saved the majority are *not* mature believers; large numbers are still babies on milk who havent gone far, so they look just like the unsaved world, esp when they sin and dont conquer it. Both of those are who the world sees. Both are seen as Christian and are the ones the world points at with objections to Christianity. Most arent living a visible life worth being a witness by how they *act*. So speaking the gospel is a must. So is giving a defense of what the world misses when it screams "hypocrite".

A Christian >> Christian<<<  Should be "preaching" the word to the world in a verbal, audiable or written way "with words". Not being silently lazy. Theres plenty of moral people headed to Hell. And for those who go to church too who are false converts, cuz they came to Jesus for wrong reasons.  And statistics show this. 63% of pastors are not saved [dont hold a biblical world view taught in Scripture] and only 34% of believers read the Bible regularly, and only 2% share the gospel. So...  theres a big problem.

That is why we must "preach" Christ in the church and to the world, the true Gospel. One must not be lazy and silent and think its the pastors job. It is a main reason the US is in the mess its in, [the second is letting the world into the church]. 

Too many in church who claim to be saved know too little of Scripture, and so theyre happy to just say nothing and act like how they live their life "miraculously" is a witness to the world when the world doesnt know nor interact with them, in the way implied, and the "believer" never tells them the gospel... its all in vain. Jesus said, Go into all the world and PREACH the Gospel. That is our commission, our purpose for still being on earth & we are to obey it.

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