Agressive Christianity according to the co-founder

“I believe that Satan’s strategy has always been, and continues to be, to deceive God’s own people. Let me tell you one of the ways that he has succeeded in doing that: In regards to our responsibility to the world. Satan has got us to accept what I call a “namby-pamby, little kid two-hand-touch football” presentation of the Gospel. This is the half-scared, half-committed way of putting the truth of Jesus before uncommitted people, thinking that this is the appropriate, sensitive way to talk to them about their souls.

Jesus said: “Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the message of God’s good news to one and to all.” Do you think that these words meant, “Go and build chapels and churches and invite the people to come one or two days a week, and if they don’t then leave them alone?”
“You go!” Jesus orders. Go where? Go everywhere to everyone! Wherever you find them, if they have a soul, then you announce the message of God’s good news. If I understand it correctly, that is the meaning and the heart behind the commission.

They are asleep – go and wake them up. They don’t see the danger that they are in. If they saw it they wouldn’t need you to run after them. The problem is they are preoccupied. Open their eyes, and turn them around by your desperation and forceful care. Do not be satisfied with just throwing around a good word about Jesus. Do not be content with gentle invitations and then prayerfully leaving them alone. Jesus wasn’t! He ran after them and pulled them out of the Hell to which they were heading.

I can hear some people whining and saying, “But you must be careful, we don’t want to push them away.” Come on! Do you expect me to wait until the uncommitted, godless person wants to be saved before I try to save them? Do you expect me to wait until my unsaved friends drift off towards hell, and never tell them about the state of their lives?

We have to make them look at the light, take off their blinders, open their eyes to make them suffer through it. If they run away from us the first time then we find them and do it all over the next time. We don’t let them have any peace until they get right with God and get their souls saved.

This is what Christianity ought to be doing right here, right now. Just do it. Don’t let your family, friends, and acquaintances die with their blood on your hands.”

Catherine Booth

Just a little reminder.