Most likely, there were a few who read Part 3 and reached for the tar and feathers. Before you pack the car and head my way, let me toss a few more logs on the fire. 
Growing up I was taught that the most important thing you can do is tell someone about Jesus. We had all kinds of methods, shortcuts, specials and tricks to help us find, wrestle and bag the “new blood.”
A This American Life podcast summed this mentally up perfectly (my paraphrase):
“I dreaded getting on a plane to go home after preaching a guest sermon. I would be tired and wore out..but I knew that I had to lay my Bible on my lab so that the person next to me would ask about. Or if they failed to ask, I had to start the conversation – because it was my duty to save that person from hell.”
Side note: the person who said that was a famous pastor in Tulsa, OK who threw away the concept of “hell” after years of that kind of stress. Oh – did I mention he was an Oral Roberts Grad and a Dove Award singer?
Is this focus on individual salvation the only choice we have?
I would beg to differ.
How’s that for a cliff hanger? 
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