mardi gras

i have been thinking about christians and how we tend to witness to others. this past sunday at church a couple talked about their time in new orleans. they went down to mardi gras to "witness" to everyone down there. i put that in quotes because personally i don't think the witness in a christlike way. they talked about how the held signs that said accept jesus or go to hell. they also told a story about how their group of christians were in two lines and a group of homosexuals decide to prade between them. knowing the two that attend my church i knew it wasn't a nice polite time down there. as i was thinking about this why would someone think that if you take a bunch of people that are lost what would make someone think that you will get them to change by yelling at them. now i am by no means a bible scholar but if we look at jesus and the way we lead is life he didn't go yelling at the lost. he hung out with them got to know them on a personal level and let his life be the example for them to change. i am sure that the people in new orleans were hurting and the last thing they want or need is people yelling at them telling them that they are wrong. now i will admit that it is true if we don't have jesus we will go to hell but yelling at them is not the way to go about telling them about God and Jesus. we are suppose to be examples of Christ so when they saw people that claim to follow christ yelling at them they most likely get a bad taste in their mouth. anyway i could keep going on with this because it really upset me sunday and i almost walked out of church. we need to be loving and act as christ would. would jesus yell at people to get him to come to him.