This is very important, and something I don't think I've ever heard. We have to remain respectful of the right of others to worship idols, because to attempt to change their minds thru any means other than reason is coercion. Is this what you are getting at? You can want to see someone converted, but to tear down their altar and sacrifice with your own hands won't do it. They will just end up resenting you and your message.... I think I can agree with that.... but time is short, and we have to get much more convincing!
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Oh, I agree! We cannot be lax in our efforts to spread the truth. But we cannot go about spreading truth by throwing stones. That is not what Yahshuah commanded the Apostles to do and it is not what we should do as their disciples.
I believe that our approach should be Paul's - when he spoke to the Gentiles in Athens (and I might not that they asked him about his faith, he did not begin preaching wildly in their meeting places; he was an example of his faith, which provoked others to come to him, much like the animals went to Noah for their salvation, he did not need to look for them) Paul first explained who the Creator is, that he made the world and everything in it. He explained the beginning, so that they could understand the end. We cannot begin preaching about sin to people who do not know what sin is. Sin is the transgression of the law. Where there is no law, there is no sin. A person who does not have the law cannot possibly comprehend the need for salvation.
We need to be aware of the difference between us who have the spiritual truth and those who have the carnal truth.