Something that's been irking me lately

is the way that we as Christians tend to fall into the habit of talking about our non-Christian friends as projects, or objects of conversion instead of people who are all uniquely diverse, crazy, wonderful, different. I'm not immune from this danger, and I use the word danger, because if we see them as goals-to-be, we lose sight of their uniqueness as humans created in God's image and as beings with the right of free will, and we see our relationships with them as duties, and not as choice. And then the way we interact with them becomes guided by rules and not by love.