The Vicious Cycle - Live Dangerously

    When we are young we are taught to go into the world and to win it for Christ and to love as Christ did, but once we become old enough to do so we are ridiculed for doing it.  We go into non-Christian communities and are told that instead of going into the world, we are to be careful who we associate with.  We open ourselves up to the people who we were taught "need God the most" and are told that it is dangerous to do so.  We treat them as people and show them the love of Christ instead of pushing them away because of their sin and we are told that we are speaking blasphemy.  Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this picture?  What I see is that the leaders in the church today are starting to look a lot like the leaders of the church in Jesus' time.  We are being told that we cannot go into "foreign" land.  We are being told that we cannot associate with non-Christians*.  We are being told that we are supposed to point out other's sins rather than showing them love of Christ.  I refuse to conform to the relapse going on in Christianity and if that means I am living dangerously, then I wholeheartedly accept!
    This leads to the question, "What is living dangerously look like?"  Living dangerously is not being afraid to go into the world!  Living dangerously is not being afraid to befriend the people outside Christianity!  Living dangerously is not being afraid to love the world as Christ did!  We are to love people no matter what they have done.  Many people will use the cliche phrase "love the sinner, hate the sin", but they hate the sinner and the sin with their actions.  It doesn't make any sense to accuse people of breaking a law that they don't even believe exists.  Also, if they don't believe in the Bible, then how can we convert them with it?  People outside Christianity don't accept the Bible as truth, so using it to convert people doesn't do anything because to them the Bible is just a group of myths.  So how do we convert people?  We walk out the love of Christ and show them that Jesus is real through our actions!  People can argue with words, but not action.  You cannot argue with what someone did, you can only accept that it happened and discuss whether it should have happened or not.  I leave you with this: How can we convert people to Christ if we avoid them?

     *John 4