Wait... There's an Easy Way to Share the Gospel?

What if I start sharing the gospel, but they argue back? What if my points just aren't good enough? What if I'm just too scared to even try? Even if you share the gospel all the time, aren't these thoughts still ones you have from time to time? Do you wish you had better answers to them? All these questions I've been asking for years. All questions that petrified me for years. After all, who wants to get into a conversation with someone who might just argue back? But after I heard a speaker at our church talk about how sharing the gospel could be done by asking someone if I could pray for them, I decided I could do that. At least until the waiter at the restaurant actually came around.

No matter how much I hyped myself up, the moment I was backed into the corner of actually doing what I planned, it was hard not to feel massive pressure and thoughts about bailing. But that began to change when I took a discipleship class at my church. This class was only offered to the high school seniors, and some of my friends had taken it the year before. They said it was helpful, but I had underestimated how helpful it was. But with everything I studied in that discipleship class, the thing that stood out the most, was the book Tactics by Greg Koukl. And I want to share the thoughts I had on it, and I hope this will benefit you as much as it did me as I'm writing this.

Have you ever used a question when you don't know what else to say? I actually just did that in the previous sentence haha. I had no idea what I was going to say or how to start this paragraph, so I decided to ask a question. Well, that is actually the first strategy of getting into and navigating a conversation with an unbeliever is asking questions.

Maybe you're tempted to doubt me on this, and honestly, I doubted this myself till I had used personally. It helped me navigate a conversation about objective truth in a way I never could have before. I had been backed into a corner where it was hard to navigate the situation, but when I asked her to clarify what she believed, everything changed. The conversation was moving again.

You know what the awesome thing about asking questions is? You don't have to lecture someone or put pressure on yourself to provide facts. Start with asking questions, then sit back and let your questions steer the conversation. Often times the person you're talking to already knows the answer, you just need to direct them in the right direction. What are some questions you could use to start a conversation about the gospel with someone? Comment down below and let me know!

But what if someone tries to argue back and begin attacking your views? What if they turn on you the moment, they realize that their views are wrong but don't want to admit it? Well, here's the secret, and boy was this one hard for me to accept. When I started a conversation with someone, I only asked questions, I didn't give my views or my beliefs till I had already gathered information, and the person had an open heart ready to hear. Yeah... let's just say keeping my mouth shut isn't one of my strong suits.

But if someone didn't like that they didn't have answers for their own questions, and they start trying to accuse you for not knowing what YOU believe, they are trying to transfer the burden of proof to you. The burden of proof is when you have to prove what you believe. And you're the one asking questions, not them. For all they know, you agree with them. Because you haven't told them what you believe, they have NOTHING to attack you about. And if they are being aggressive, keep it that way, and just keep turning it and asking THEM questions.

Even with all of the questions, what if they say something like: "There is no such thing as objective truth...." "Nothing can be true...." "We can never know if that is really right...." Well, I'm sorry, but statements like that just don't fly in the real world. Following the law of noncontradiction, something can't be both right and wrong at the same time. Saying there isn't a such thing as objective truth, is proving itself wrong, because isn't that statement objective? Or by saying nothing can be true, is that statement true? You can't know if anything is right? Is that statement correct?

Just by asking them those questions, letting themself prove themselves wrong, is the best way to get them to see your point. And it takes all the pressure off you in the conversation. Now you don't have to worry about getting tounge tied whenever you want to share the gospel, and you don't need to worry about starting conversations. Let God lead you into those conversations and to those people, remembering that you just need to plant the seed, God is the one who saves.

I highly suggest checking out the book Tactics I linked below! It seriously helped me feel more comfortable sharing the gospel! Comment below if you've read it! And once you read it, come back and let me know!

Tactics