{"id":35413,"date":"2014-07-13T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=35413"},"modified":"2014-07-12T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:56:14","slug":"evangelism-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/evangelism-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wonder what evangelism victims are thinking as you drone on about sin and hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote about how <a title=\"Bullhorn Evangelism\" href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/bullhorn-evangelism\/\">confrontational evangelism<\/a> turns way more people away from Jesus than toward Him. 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