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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 "growin...

The quote "Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words." Has an ambiguous author. Some claim St. Francis of Assisi others say it was a Franciscan friar named Junipero Serra in the 18th century in California. Regardless of its origin, the unbiblical quote was widely quoted from 2000-2015 by non Christians in an attempt to try to shut Christians up to stop the sharing of the Gospel. There was a popular duct tape "silence movement" craze happening then and it was used to try to encourage believers to keep their faith to themselves. Standard satanic tactics.  This is going to take some words [😁]: “to obey the Commission of Christ to  " Go into all the World and  preach  the gospel ". And " Preach the Word in season and out."  Scripture declares"  how will they hear if no one is sent"  And  “ So then faith comes by  hearing , and hearing by the word of God .” (Romans 10:17). We are to  obey God  above men. ...