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Eastern Orthodoxy provided many things postmoderns need and desire: appeal to the senses, meaningful worship, tradition, love and acceptance, and experience and mystery.  The study concluded that the movement of evangelical Protestants to Eastern Orthodoxy was not an evangelistic movement.  Converts were believers before their move to Eastern Orthodoxy.  Many reasons given for conversion point to legitimate deficiencies in the evangelical Protestant church. A concern was raised for the children of the new converts and for long-time members of the ethnic Eastern Orthodox churches because of the obscurity of the gospel.  Evangelical Protestants need to learn more about their own faith and about Eastern Orthodoxy so they can articulate the gospel more clearly with as little offense as possible to unbelieving Eastern Orthodox members.  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Christianity was viewed negatively as too restrictive, having unattainable standards, hypocritical, bigoted, and prone to divisiveness.  A minority saw pastors as con men and leaders who do not set a good example.  Most respondents saw major changes taking place in their lives taking place if they became Christians, with a larger number focusing on new obligations/restrictions and a smaller number on new benefits.  Respondents were more or less evenly divided between encouragement and caution in their reaction to a best friend's decision to become a Christian. Finally, they claimed that young men were reluctant to become Christians because they saw negative consequences such as being linked to the female world; loss of freedom to do what they really like to do, e.g., engage in premarital sex; and loss of friends, especially through refusal to participate in gang activities.  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