Which verses in the bible exhort (or promote) Christians to spread Christianity or Conversion to Christianity?

It's called the "Great Commission" Matthew 28:18-20

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Dear blind chameleon,

Okay, here's a list straight out of the Old and New Testaments that relate to spreading the gospel of Christ to every creature:

Isa. 2: 3

Isa. 49: 6

Isa. 52: 7

Isa. 61: 1

Jer. 3: 14

Jer. 16: 16

Ezek. 34: 11

Jonah 1: 2

Jonah 3: 2

Matt. 4: 19 (Mark 1: 17; Luke 5: 10)

Matt. 5: 19

Matt. 10: 6

Matt. 11: 1

Matt. 24: 14

Matt. 28: 19

Mark 1: 4

Mark 3: 14

Mark 16: 15

Luke 9: 2

Luke 10: 1

Luke 22: 32

Luke 24: 48 (Luke 24: 27; Acts 1: 8)

John 4: 35

John 15: 16

John 21: 17

Acts 5: 42

Acts 8: 12

Acts 10: 42

Acts 17: 2

Rom. 10: 15

1 Cor. 1: 23

1 Cor. 9: 16

1 Cor. 15: 1

2 Cor. 4: 5

2 Tim. 4: 2

Rev. 14: 6

As for motivations, some may feel something in their hearts that they have to do. Others may feel that it's expected of them because their father and mother and uncles and aunts have done it, and so on. Even others may feel that if they do NOT do it, it would be unto them as a sin, a sin of omission or neglecting. Then there are some who feel that Christ has asked them to do this thing. Those are probably the motivations of the bulk of the christian missionaries out there.

What I'd like to address is the tone I am getting from the last part. I sense that you feel like some missionaries somehow "violated" some sort of trust or other custom or whatever it was. What I do have to say is that even though there are a lot of good people who happen to do a bunch of missionary stuff, there are some who probably need more training in sharing the gospel. Christians know God can do miracles, but He will make those miracles happen only with the appropriate conduit.

If someone claims to be a missionary, but somehow manages to offend every living creature in a 5 mile radius the moment he or she wakes up, then something is obviously wrong. Even people who claim to not be religious recognize that nice polite people have a more "christian" feeling or spirit around them than a cantakerous lout with obnoxious body odor claiming to repesent Jesus Christ.

Please also realize that there are various "flavors" of Christianity. There may be a reason why you may feel offended, and it's something inherent with that denomination. There may be something you have a dis-agreement with, and that is fine. You now have just started to refine your opinions and discovering a part of yourself you were not aware of. Is that a bad thing? Of course not! You're beginning to learn more truths about yourself. And by being more true to yourself, you get the chance to be more truthful with others, and isn't that a good thing?

So, just go ahead and let them preach. If you don't want to be bothered by them, you can do so in a gentle way. If they are true christians, then they will be polite back. They might ask for a polite confirmation to leave your doorstep, but shouldn't stay too long after that. But if in your heart you feel that they may have something to say, go with that gut feeling. If they can promise and keep to 15 minutes, it may be worth a shot. I know I don't know everything, so if someone wants to share something with me that seems vaguely interesting, I warn them they only have a few minutes to impress me with their wonderful thoughts and ideas.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Alvin R.

MOAM is outta control- I have always been Christian. I don't remember ever having that one Conversion moment, that I hear others talk about. I have just always known that it was true. I have little moments all the time though that confirm that belief. Like when I am sitting in church, someone will teach something that I have always known, but I will see it from a different perspective than I have before- reading my scriptures, hanging out on here and reading some of the crazy things that people believe and just normal life experiences are all times when I may have a moment that confirms the Truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But those moments are always spiritual- those moments always help me to feel closer to my Father in Heaven.

Alvin did a great job answering your question.

Thank you Alvin.

Pastor Art

Ezekiel 23

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

3 and they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

4 And the names of them were Aho'lah the elder, and Ahol'ibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aho'lah, and Jerusalem Ahol'ibah.

5 And Aho'lah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

6 which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

11 And when her sister Ahol'ibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

14 and that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde'ans portrayed with vermilion,

15 girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chalde'a, the land of their nativity:

16 and as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chalde'a.

17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

22 Therefore, O Ahol'ibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

23 the Babylonians, and all the Chalde'ans, Pekod, and Sho'a, and Ko'a, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

29 and they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aho'lah and Ahol'ibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

37 that they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

41 and satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabe'ans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aho'lah and unto Ahol'ibah, the lewd women.

45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.