Offending others

there's this blog I was looking at, and the description of the blog says this, "Too many Christians these days go on the attack, using a battle axe to kill weeds instead of spraying the roots. The purpose of this blog is to defend the garden, rather than attack the weeds." I asked the creator of that blog what that means exactly. He said, "Basically, many Christians waste time attacking beliefs both inside and outside the church, when we should be defending Christianity." I replied and told him, "sometimes to defend you need to attack also. We need to show people that all those other religions are false. We need to show them all the mistakes in other religions. And we cant do that without attacking." It's true, if you defend your own faith, then you're attacking, and offending those who don't believe what you do. The writer of the blog then asked me, "Do we need to show them that their religions are false, or do we need them to see that we're not like the others?"

First, if we just act different from everyone else, then we'll be considered Mormons. It's true, I tested it. I'm different from the people at my school, so now they just think I'm a Mormon. We cant go around acting different and not preaching to these people. God command us to preach to the ends of the earth, (Mark 16:14, "He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.") When preaching the good news we are also attacking and offending other peoples beliefs, unless you just preach what people want to hear, like a lot of these so-called "great preachers". You don't preach what people want to hear, you preach what they need to hear. And while doing this you also offend them.

Next, How do we waste time? By attacking the beliefs we're also defending them. Look at Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Aurelius Augustine. Without those men, who attacked and defended their beliefs, we would still be selling faith, and still be selling a way to get in heaven. The bishop would be higher than the Bible. Without people attacking, we cant stop all these wrong beliefs. In order to only defend and never attack, you would have to stay silent your whole life. And even then you wouldn't be defending your beliefs, in fact if you were to always stay silent, you would be attacking God. You would be disobeying His word, and his commands. God commands us, he doesn't ask us, He commands us to go and preach the good news to all creation. I will not back down and stay silent, while people are cursing God. No one should stay silent.