This is a call for us to maintain a positive testimony before unbelievers, not so they are guided towards us, but so they are shepherded towards the Lord.
“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
There are many messages being proclaimed. Some messages are anti-Christian, not by their explicit declaration against Christ but by their implicit denial of Christ’s truth.