I have a good friend named Nick who is a non-believer and nothing I have said can persuade him. Three times I have had long conversations telling him of Christ and the eternal life He brings, but my friend just seems to turn it into a debate where no matter how many questions I answer he always disputes me with something else.
It seems so easy in the bible. Paul would go out around the world and churches with hundreds of believers would pop up wherever he came to. I wish there was a clear instruction manual given in one of his letters on how to persuade. Is there anywhere in any of the new testament where one goes out to witness to someone over and over and finally persuading them in the end?
I even asked him if he was given proof of God's existence would that be enough to make him accept Christ, he said to me he would have to question God and judge him from there. My friend has some issues that he does not like about God.
There is nothing else I can say, I will just have to allow whatever happens to happen. Maybe God will open his heart someday. It is hard because he really is my friend and his eternity is dark.
It seems so easy in the bible. Paul would go out around the world and churches with hundreds of believers would pop up wherever he came to. I wish there was a clear instruction manual given in one of his letters on how to persuade. Is there anywhere in any of the new testament where one goes out to witness to someone over and over and finally persuading them in the end?
I even asked him if he was given proof of God's existence would that be enough to make him accept Christ, he said to me he would have to question God and judge him from there. My friend has some issues that he does not like about God.
There is nothing else I can say, I will just have to allow whatever happens to happen. Maybe God will open his heart someday. It is hard because he really is my friend and his eternity is dark.
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