To be evangelistic means that we issue an invitation, not practice coercion. There is a word bandied around in our society about Christian evangelism. The word frequently crops up in the press and on talk shows: “proselytize,” which means to recruit members from one faith or religious tradition to another by offering special inducements or requirements at pressure. Yet this is not what we are seeking to do. Our objectives are not to convert people from one faith to another faith or tradition but
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