NON-Believer's ESSAY. Read, Digest, Try Putting into YOUR
Own words! Be sure to REVIEW YOUR OUTLINE, AKA TALKING POINTS !!
Its one thing to speak to a fallen away (Catholic or other Christian) but nothing prepares a Believer for talking to a serious non-Believer. They see people who call themselves Christians acting like dunderheads; they hear about pedophiles; they see people waging war in the name of Christianity; Our work is cut out for us on this task. WE have to have GOD'S help from beginning to end. It's so easy to understand Pain, but watch this to focus your mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHK2qe1LWU and you will understand your purpose. Highlight, copy and paste this link to your search line. You will be glad you did.
First ask for a few moments of uninterrupted talking on your part.
Start at the beginning which is to explain to them WHY you want to talk to them. NEVER GET DEFENSIVE.. IF you tell them what Christ has meant to you, then GOD will do the rest!! TRUST HIM on this. SO how do we start? Two Ways suggested by Well-known Christians Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron do it like this: (approaching a stranger on Santa Monica Beach) "Hi, do you have a minute? (always wait for an answer when you ask a question!!) Hopefully, their person stops, then they ask " Do you know where you'd go if you died tonight?" the people usually say "Heaven" and it goes on like that. They claim to be good people and therefore expect to be in Heaven. Ray or Kirk then ask them if they've ever heard of the 10 Commandments. 'OF course!' they say. Then Ray asks: Have you ever stolen anything? looked at someone with lust? Been jealous of a 'neighbor'? - almost everyone has to admit they have... and when they say so, Ray says to them: 'So, by your own admission you are a lusty, lying jealous thief, so why would God allow you into Heaven?' Now he has their attention. Then he tells them this: What if you were convicted of a crime and you were in front of the Judge who was ready to sentence you and just as the Judge raised the Gavel, Someone stepped up and said, "Wait, I will pay their fine/do their time for them". The Person who stepped forward of course is JESUS... Now there are about 1 million words I could say here but let's simplify: Jesus is Real...and this has nothing to do with RELIGION! Most of us who profess belief in Jesus have been on a long journey to be with Him. We can understand why people who have not taken this journey don't know or believe in Jesus. Think of things you know NOW that you didn't know 'then'...things that you never knew even existed... they were there...YOU just didn't know they existed...that's what JESUS is like. HE has always been there, but maybe this is now your time to meet Him. Why would YOU want to know JESUS? We contend that He is the way to Heaven. This life is just a tiny bit of life and it's messed up for the most part at that...but we've had enough evidence to know He is REAL. SO why do YOU matter to GOD? I mean there are a zillion people, right? One reason: Because He created you. YOU are HIS creation. It's been proven that evolution is an archaic 18th-19th century progressive thought; Even Darwin died as a Christ-believing Christian in the end!! Most Scientists have ended their lives knowing that GOD is real...too many 'coincidences'...too many patterns and designs that could never have been formed 'randomly' but no one comes from non-belief to believer with the snap of a finger! FAITH IS A DECISION. We're talking about a RELATIONSHIP here not RELIGION...Like any relationship, the more you learn about the person, the closer you feel. ALL you have to do is take the first step. |
HERE IS YOUR CHOICE :
. You can believe in GOD, live according to His teachings and go to Heaven for Eternity. You're right!
2. You can believe in GOD, live according to His teachings and he is not real. You lose nothing though You're wrong. 3. You do not believe in GOD and he isn't real. You lose nothing nor gain anything because you're right. 4. You do not believe in GOD and he turns out to be Real and because you've rejected Him you spend your eternity separated from Him in suffering. Because You're wrong. COMING TO GOD and JESUS is a DECISION. GOD has purposefully made it YOUR Decision to make. He's probably also prompted me to come talk to you. That's how things work. GOD never stops hoping that you will come to Him ! Why should you decide to do that? ...IF 'something is missing' from your life; if people who are Believers seem to be more joyful and more content, no matter what happens THEN this journey to find Christ is probably worth some effort on your part. REMEMBER! GOD gave you total Freedom of choice for the simple reason is that LIFE here on EARTH is nothing more than TEST. We know we die. We know awful things happen and we know we have little if no real control over our lives. We question why any GOD would allow babies to die, Tsunamis to flood, earthquakes and terrorists, Cancer and accidents. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REAL (NON PC ANSWER?) okay, here it is: Because, like it or not, this is how one builds character. IF we never had a problem, if GOD was our "Vending Machine" or "Santa Claus" what good would we ever be to Him? We'd be spoiled brat marshmallows! But if, like any great Athlete, we met the challenges and overcame them by Trusting GOD (asking Him for guidance) we moved from 'the helpless and childish mode' to the 'Capable Adult mode'. We become REAL companions for GOD, not robots. LIFE is like an equestrian obstacle course! Most of the same types of things happen to each of us: we are born, have childhoods, grow up, experience victories and failures, health and sicknesses. All through our lives we have many opportunities to meet CHRIST. (Weddings, Funerals, personal Tragedies, People we admire who speak out in favor about GOD and JESUS) There have been plenty of those who (some privately) call themselves NON-BELIEVERS. They sail along not 'needing anybody' until one day something happens that they just can't handle. Some of us get mad at and turn ON GOD for 'letting this 'whatever' happen and some of us turn TO GOD. (IF you can get ANGRY with GOD then you DO believe in HIM!) |
....SO what do Believers know that Non-Believers don't know? They know that GOD will never pushes HIS presence on us. WE simply must go to HIM. We also know that whenever we do that, HE meets us with Open Arms.
JESUS, GOD'S SON came to earth to be the SAVIOR the Doorway back to HEAVEN. GOD is total love and totally pure, He can't have Evil around Him or it would taint all that He is so His solution was to have a Pure Sinless Being face Sacrifice for all the Sins of mankind, past/present/future. GOD wishes for companionship with His Creations (us). Thus GOD had to “grow” or “develop” companions. ROBOTS would not satisfy. The Bible reads like an amazing best seller once we understand that it's ALL one big Story; All of the books called the LAWS and the other books called the PROPHETS are merely back up information that feed into the narrative that is the BIBLE, which is the story of Creation of the Universe, God's relationship with the Humans He created, the entrance of Satan and evil and the struggle through out the ages, that struggle ended when JESUS came and died for us. The more you get to know JESUS the more you can appreciate what HE did for you and for me. There is REAL EVIL and Evil may be whispering to you now..don't believe this...but I ask you...WHat do you have to lose? IF I'm right then you have a glorious trip ahead of you and ETERNAL life... if I'm wrong then you are in a no more difference place than you are now. ALL you have to do is be willing to ASK GOD to reveal HIMSELF to YOU. Either here and now, or after you think about it. People do NOT convert, only GOD does. I have told you all of this because Someone took the time to tell me and it's changed my life. I want you to have this too. (LET ALL OF THIS SINK IN, PRAY FOR THIS PERSON AS MUCH AND AS HARD AS YOU'VE EVER PRAYED FOR ANYONE OR ANYTHING. GIVE THEM THE TALKING POINTS and OFFER TO CALL THEM in a few days. That would be a time for Q & A and digging into reference books together and especially PRAYING TOGETHER) if the person to whom you presented this thinks you are doing it to gain points...points from whom? GOD? Then they DO believe in GOD ! but no, again only GOD converts! GOD created US. HE LOVES US. HE wants US with HIM. Not "Non-Believers"! Have YOU ever tried to accomplish anything surrounded by Non-Believers?! "Falling in Love with God is the World's Greatest Romance; Seeking Him is the Greatest Adventure; Finding Him is the Greatest Human Achievement" --St. Augustine ©NARROWGATEC2013 |
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