I don't agree completely. I have friends who are now christians, but the one thing that really turned them away from ever trying to get to know God was the fact that people kept "preashing" to them about how sinful they are and they deserve death and such, it just scared them away. It wasn't until someone listened to their problems and helped them, gained their trust and just kinda set Jesus out there as an option that they gave him a chance.
I still disagree. People are not going to listen to someone who is holloring at them to repent. Where is the love that you are "supposed" to be showing in that. I realise that telling them about it is loving, but they don't see that. You need to see where they stand first.
I've already said how in our eyes it is loving, but to someone who may not even believe in a God, you cant just start preaching at them about how their lives are a mess and they need to repent now or they will go to hell. Although that is the reality of it, you need to explain about God and the salvation you can get through him before you just start yammering on about how they are failures. This is what turns people away from the church in the first place.
I never once said that repenting is not important, nor will you ever here me say that. I am saying that you need to present to them the idea of God, and your beliefs around it. How are they going to repent if they don't believe?
Well your way of preaching to them is already changing now. All I'm saying is you can't be ragging on them about how much of a mess up they are if they know nothing about God. You have to give them some background information, I've grown up in the church, so I have known this stuff for ever, but someone who hasn't grown up in the chruch may not have a cluew about ANY of this.
Well at first you said to just tell them how bad they were, than you said to find out if they believe in Heaven. And it matters that I grew up in the church because what I'm saying is, if you were to minister to someone who grew up in the church or atleast had a religious background, they would already know about God. If they didn't have a religious background, than they might not have a clue. which is why step one would be explain the christian faith.
I must say, that is a very cold statement.
How do you tell your unsaved friends about Jesus or about coming to church? A new school year is about to start and I have a handful of friends that are not saved and i think should be and if they were it would make a HUGE difference in there lives. I find my christians buds and i struggle a lot with this. So what what would be the correct approach? In some of my attempts, a couple don't really reject but they act like they don't really need God and i do pray for God to unharden there hearts and God to open there eyes...but i dont know what to say anymore. I dont want to stop because God can use me to bring more people in the Kingdom of God. So i really need your help. What should i say, do ? please
-yoyo
Well firstly I try to keep as best a testimoney as possible. WE are both about the same age so I assume were probabley about the same year in school
I am unlike most of the girls in my year, I do not dye my hair, nor do I wear makeup nor have peirced ears, I am also a born again beliver in Christ.
My and two of my five brothers are the only born again belivers in our school. Many grls ask me why dont you have periced ear or why dont u dye ur hair? this for me is a God conversation starter: It says in the bible ' cast away your earings' or someting of those lines - it also says ' you should not braid your hair' braid meaning dyed- if you look it up in the dictionary.
After the conversation starts flowwing I beign on my approach of tellin the about God, and how he sent his only begotten son to die on the cross so we might be saved from an eternity in the lake of fire.
I begin with a story, my father, a wise man once told me.
A man and his son were walking one day, and they went down to the harbour to look at the boats. Upon there arrival to the harbour, they say a man, drowing, waves crashing over the top if his head, shouting despretly for help.
The man, quickly tells his son, Jump in there and save that man.
The boy jumps into the cold deep waters of the harbour, and swims against the current to get the drowning man. He manages to get a grip and swimms, with the man in his arms to the ladder on the harbour wall. The man grabs hold of the ladder and pulls himslef up. But just then a bog wave comes and the boy is washed away and drowns.
However the once drowning man, gets out of the harbour, reaches up onto the land, brushes the water of his clothes, and walks away, without even saying thank you to the father of the boy, who has just seen his son die.
The little boy represents Jesus, the father represents God and the drowng person represents the unbeliver.
God sent his son, and hardly anyone has accepted this and said thanks.
