Question?

In church today the Pastor said something that I believe should have been said in churches all along.  First, let me say that I attend a Methodist church with an incredible praise and worship band (just needed to say that). Back to my point, he said, "God does not need us to be angry believers.  We can be friends with people who don't believe what we do.  It is through you lifestyle and how you love that God is glorified."  Here is my question: Why don't we all believe this?

I am not going to go on a religious soap box.  This is not what this blog is about.  However, I am a lover of people and I believe that every person has a right to choose how they live life for they are the person who has to answer for their actions. I have never been one to limit my relationships because of differences, I do limit in integrity clashes but I realize that we all have issues and some issues we have work out by ourselves and others are worked out from deposits of other people.

Because I believe in the concept of love, I understand that love is what changes the hearts of people and is ultimately what we all respond to. I don't need to beat my beliefs over the head of people, drag them into my world of knowledge, shove a book in their hand for notes, and make them become a student of my world to get it.  Perhaps if we exercise the idea of love, compassion and patience, we can all recover from our issues.

Question: Didn't God come to show love to those who didn't know him.  I don't believe I have ever read that he beat people up to make them follow him, do you? 

Off the soap box now.