Mike
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Only 1% of Americans think so. 
The Barna Group - Americans Say Serving the Needy is Christianity
The Barna Foundation conducted a telephonic survey with 1000 Americans over 18 years of age with open-ended questions about their impressions of the positive and negative impact of Christians on society. Ten Americans out of 1000 feel that Christians are too aggressive in sharing the Gospel. :shocked!
Would this not be indicative of the lack sharing of the Gospel? If we're sharing the Gospel, it seems more people would cite this as an issue. The Gospel has the effect of either lifting those who hear it to unimaginable joy, or it convicts them of sin, or both. It seems more people would take offense and this would be reflected in a much higher statistic.
Here's a few other interesting findings of the study. The most positive contribution of Christians is helping the poor and underprivileged. The most cited negative contribution was "violence in the name of Jesus". Wow!
This statistic is from another survey that heard about on the radio today. Christians were asked if they would feel comfortable in a "take your Bible to work day". Only 15% responded yes, with the majority of people answering "NO" on the basis that it would be offensive to others (not against company policy). Interestingly, 75% of those identifying themselves as "agnostic" or "atheistic" said they would have no problem if a coworker brought a Bible to work.
I believe this is very telling of our lack of boldness with the Gospel, and I'm sure the results are not indicative of American Christians only.
Any thoughts?
The Barna Group - Americans Say Serving the Needy is Christianity
The Barna Foundation conducted a telephonic survey with 1000 Americans over 18 years of age with open-ended questions about their impressions of the positive and negative impact of Christians on society. Ten Americans out of 1000 feel that Christians are too aggressive in sharing the Gospel. :shocked!
Would this not be indicative of the lack sharing of the Gospel? If we're sharing the Gospel, it seems more people would cite this as an issue. The Gospel has the effect of either lifting those who hear it to unimaginable joy, or it convicts them of sin, or both. It seems more people would take offense and this would be reflected in a much higher statistic.
Here's a few other interesting findings of the study. The most positive contribution of Christians is helping the poor and underprivileged. The most cited negative contribution was "violence in the name of Jesus". Wow!
This statistic is from another survey that heard about on the radio today. Christians were asked if they would feel comfortable in a "take your Bible to work day". Only 15% responded yes, with the majority of people answering "NO" on the basis that it would be offensive to others (not against company policy). Interestingly, 75% of those identifying themselves as "agnostic" or "atheistic" said they would have no problem if a coworker brought a Bible to work.
I believe this is very telling of our lack of boldness with the Gospel, and I'm sure the results are not indicative of American Christians only.
Any thoughts?
