10 passengers we love to hate: Day 9 -- passengers who try to convert you

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One of the reasons I left evangelicalism after 20 years is that they claim to have all the answers. I respect their missionary zeal, but God is so much bigger than they are. For example, to declare that someone is going to hell if they don't believe certain things about the Lord Jesus or the Virgin Mary is wrong. God, not us, decides in His absolute freedom who will be saved and who will not be saved. We humans cannot set limits on God's divine freedom. Yet, evangelicals continue to make grand pronouncements about who will and will not be saved.

This having been said, these conversations may be annoying but maybe you can get something out of them. It was through evangelicalism that I first learned about God and the Bible, but as my understanding of God, His Word, and his Church grew and matured I left evangelicalism and found my spiritual home in the Orthodox Church. We don't know what God's plans are; He may also have plans for you that you do not know about.

-Thomas K

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