Good morning Trinity,
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Hello sayso,

I think the problem is not about the truth itself but about the way that we are exposing it. We should never be upset about someone who is rejecting us. Just because people do not agree with our truth we should never become berserk. Where is the peace in Christ, if because of our negative emotions we are becoming afflicted? We should distinguish the reject of the truth from the reject of our person. Unfortunately, our ego is the source of all our divisions. Just because someone could disagree with us we have this tendency to look at him as an antagonist. Why? Because our ego is hurt we become suspicious. It is not the reject of the truth that upsets us but the reject of our self. That is touching the pride manifested in every human being.
There there are cases of those who present the Gospel in a way that is not out of love.

However, that doesn't have to be the case for the truth to be rejected. As I said in my last post, no person has ever been or will ever be as loving or righteous as Jesus, yet many people were offended by what He said.

It is not always the person presenting the truth that is the problem.

The ears of a person often hear what they chose to hear in a persons message and because of their own bad heart judge the speaker because they are offended by what the person says and not how it was said.

And where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is concerned many don't need a bad at***ude to become offended. It is not automatically the speakers problem.

John 15

18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

You see, many times the world needs no reason to hate or be offended.

20 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master ' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21 "But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 "He who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 "If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'

26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that when I come to visit you I won't like what I find, and then you won't like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfishness, backstabbing, gossip, conceit, and disorderly behavior.
The problem with you using this quote is that you've removed it from it's context. Paul is not speaking about the church preaching the Gospel or defending the faith to unbelievers in this verse.

He is writing to believers in Jesus Christ. The whole new Testament with perhaps the exception of the four Gospels are written to "The Church". He was concerned about their fighting amongst themselves not about them offending unbelievers. Here is what Paul had to say about unbelievers in relation to The Church.

2 Corinthians 6

14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Before you react to this last verse, let me share with you what "do not be bound together" means. It is not to be interpreted as "look at yourselves as better than those people are". It means, do not make mismatched alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith.

Our yoke is the one that we have received from Jesus, our Lord and Master. If we lay down His yoke and join ourselves with a person carrying another's yoke then we are no longer following Jesus.

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The problem is not essentially with all the unbelievers but with the believers. We should not be affected by the reject of the unbelievers, however the egotistic at***ude of the believers could be the main cause of this reject. The christian self-discipline is demanding that we tame the bad heart and that we monitor the inner man.

It is more easy to be the observer than to be observed. And if we are the observer, we should be the observer of our inner man and not of the others. Observing our thoughts, our emotions and actions, and learning about our bad heart or inner man. This is the only way we could love God with all our heart, by taming the bad heart and enlarging the good heart. On the path for a pure heart.

Trinity
I don't believe that the problem is with "all" unbelievers.

And I don't believe that it is "believers who are always being affected" by the rejection of the Gospel who are always the problem.

Man does not love God by fixing his own heart according to the Bible. Man must die and be born again. He must have a "new" heart not the old one that he has to work on to get it to love. Man can no more look into his own heart and make it love others, than he can do surgery on his own heart to make it pump blood.

This is a different gospel then the one I know.

Ezekiel 11

25"Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

26"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

27"I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

God does all these things through Jesus when we accept Him.