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Emotional intelligence matters when it comes to spreading the gospel.  Jesus had it.  When he saw the crowds he felt compassion for them because they were harassed and downtrodden, like sheep without a shepherd.  He had the emotional intelligence to look past all the things that might have annoyed or angered him about the crowds, and saw them instead in a sympathetic, yes, empathetic, light. The culture war approach to Christianity, so prevalent in the church today, ruins our emotional intelligence and understandably makes the crowds fearful of the church–no wonder they are staying away in droves.  No wonder the growingest sector of religious affiliation is “nones” and I don’t mean “nuns.”
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