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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
 
I'm so glad you posted this because i've got a similar situation. I've been praying for one of my friends lately, specifically for him to become a Christian but as I don't get to see him often or talk to him often I'm praying that because I know he has several Christian friends they'll start to witness to him, even family or people he just meets.

It says on your profile that you're fifteen so in a way it's a bit of a different situation to when I was younger and I started telling people about Jesus. A couple of years ago when i were at school we had a conversation about Church and Christianity one dinner time between four of us, i were the only Christian in the group that particular dinner time and my friends started ripping the mick out of me, calling me a Bible Basher, a Jesus Freak. I really tried to ignore it but it honestly really upset me, I got home that day and just burst into tears, I was and still am proud to be a Christian but I wasn't proud of the way my friends were treating me. All of us were fifteen or sixteen at the time and I honestly couldn't believe that they couldn't just accept people's beliefs and let them get on with life. This probably makes no sense but anyway....it's much easier to tell your friends about Jesus when you're younger. I think I were about eight or nine when I went upto two girls during this one day at school and told them about Jesus, they didn't take the mick out me, they just accepted what I believed and eventually I said the prayer I'd said just months earlier before I joined that school. Anyway what i'm trying to say is it's going to be harder to witness to your friends now than it would have been a few years ago but don't be discouraged by that, I'm hoping this post will only encourage you more to go for it. I'd say you should start off by praying, if you have specific friends you feel you need to pray for right now i'd ask God to help you to have the confidence to talk to them without being scared about what their reaction will be, pray that other Christian friends, family members or people that they meet will be a big help too. Maybe instead of talking to them together, spend some time with them individually? They could take it much more seriously and they wouldn't have each other to egg on if they were going to be shallow and start taking the mick. I'll be praying for you :)
 
be nice. dont force things on them that they dont want. If they say they dont care, they dont care.
pushing things on them is wrong.
accept them for who they are, and if they dont want to change, they shouldnt have to.
i know you want to help them, but it is THEIR life.
 
I'm so glad you posted this because i've got a similar situation. I've been praying for one of my friends lately, specifically for him to become a Christian but as I don't get to see him often or talk to him often I'm praying that because I know he has several Christian friends they'll start to witness to him, even family or people he just meets.

It says on your profile that you're fifteen so in a way it's a bit of a different situation to when I was younger and I started telling people about Jesus. A couple of years ago when i were at school we had a conversation about Church and Christianity one dinner time between four of us, i were the only Christian in the group that particular dinner time and my friends started ripping the mick out of me, calling me a Bible Basher, a Jesus Freak. I really tried to ignore it but it honestly really upset me, I got home that day and just burst into tears, I was and still am proud to be a Christian but I wasn't proud of the way my friends were treating me. All of us were fifteen or sixteen at the time and I honestly couldn't believe that they couldn't just accept people's beliefs and let them get on with life. This probably makes no sense but anyway....it's much easier to tell your friends about Jesus when you're younger. I think I were about eight or nine when I went upto two girls during this one day at school and told them about Jesus, they didn't take the mick out me, they just accepted what I believed and eventually I said the prayer I'd said just months earlier before I joined that school. Anyway what i'm trying to say is it's going to be harder to witness to your friends now than it would have been a few years ago but don't be discouraged by that, I'm hoping this post will only encourage you more to go for it. I'd say you should start off by praying, if you have specific friends you feel you need to pray for right now i'd ask God to help you to have the confidence to talk to them without being scared about what their reaction will be, pray that other Christian friends, family members or people that they meet will be a big help too. Maybe instead of talking to them together, spend some time with them individually? They could take it much more seriously and they wouldn't have each other to egg on if they were going to be shallow and start taking the mick. I'll be praying for you :)


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Thanks sooo much tastik! I know exactly what your takling about, My friends call me Jesus Freak also but I take that as a compliment, they also say i'm a superchristian and a gangster christian lol but i do find it very hard to witnees, ill continue praying. thanks for your prayers :D
 
be nice. dont force things on them that they dont want. If they say they dont care, they dont care.
pushing things on them is wrong.
accept them for who they are, and if they dont want to change, they shouldnt have to.
i know you want to help them, but it is THEIR life.

got it beats. Thanks:D

btw bails: i was banned from CCF. so i made another account and stuff, but they know all my emails so im banned for life! haha . Ken is Lameeeeee.
 
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

When I want to tell my friends about Christ I ask them about their religion about details about theirs and usually they are open to listen to me. Just make sure you don't stuff the Bible down their throat and if they are interested in becoming a Christian don't give them too much information just give them the necessary. And for your friends who become Christian invite them to church and help them find a Christian mentor. Leaving a new Christian by themselves is like teaching a baby how to walk and throwing them out of the street; people could easily influence them.
 
When I want to tell my friends about Christ I ask them about their religion about details about theirs and usually they are open to listen to me. Just make sure you don't stuff the Bible down their throat and if they are interested in becoming a Christian don't give them too much information just give them the necessary. And for your friends who become Christian invite them to church and help them find a Christian mentor. Leaving a new Christian by themselves is like teaching a baby how to walk and throwing them out of the street; people could easily influence them.


Thanks.. will do!
 
I've found that the easiest way to help people come to Christ is to help them learn about it themselves. You can't make anyone want to become a Christian, they have to want it in their own hearts. I would suggest inviting them to come with you to a youth gathering or church social event where they can be around Christians and begin to learn. Give them the opportunities to learn and to ask questions, because they can't ask you or anyone else about things they've never been exposed to, but you also can't just tell them everything they need to know in one sitting. Basically, just gently open the door for them, but let them walk through to meet you on the other side. Just make sure you're there to guide them through. :)
 
thanks bailey beats,I have a situation like that
thanks for helping me out
 
well i just tell them about God and sometimes read a few verses from the bible to them and if they don't want to be saved i just let them be its their decision but i did manage to get 2 of my cousins saved.Let me tell you this story and it happened in real life.My gram keep telling my aunt about God and she kept not wanting to get saved but when my gram died last year my aunt finally came and got saved it took my grams death to get my aunt saved.Now i'm glad she got saved.
 
hey guys, as someone who was once a teen when i decided to get baptized i got all sorts of questions from things like do you really believe in God to are you getting baptized naked, dont ask! but still these people didnt listen i came from a very public school where it can be hard to be different and those people i went to school with i dont see anymore. of course it is hard to bring friends to Christ but all you need to do is plant a seed, ive taken friends to my community group or house group, asked my little cousins to our youth group where im a leader. the oppertunities are endless really, what about a bunch of your christian friends and non christian friends and having a girls night, i bet that they find we christian girls arent too different from them and maybe like do a ask any question type thing like see wot they think about this and wot you think about that. that kind of thing used to come up with my friends and i a lot like for instance sex before marriage and that. like simple things like music recommend a band who you think they might like who could be christian, i mean take switchfoot for example they are awesome and christian.

i really commend you for your concern and bravery. it says in Joshua Be bold and Be strong for the Lord Your God is with you. a wee verse from you. hope itgoes well, let me know!
 
Hello praisedanceryoyo. I have this problem too especially in school. I just thought of a way that I will try to get my friends interested. U can use fun activities that will eventually pull them to ask questions about God. For example...If u have friends that love to listen to stories, use the opputunity to tell them one from the bible. Don't tell them it's from the bible yet until they ask for themselves and that could be an open door to sew a seed into thier hearts. This way it's fun for u and them. :D
 
I'm in the same situation kind of but mine is i have alot and mainly all of my friends r nonbelievers but me and 2 others are planning on getting 1/3 of my our school converted. So I'm going to be talking to people like this im going to talk like whats up, hows it goin etc but then in going to be like hey r u saved? and if they say no im going to be like well you know Jesus loves you right? and give them the word if they dont accept it then like it says in the bible wipe your feet from their doorstep. But besides just talking to people we r organizing a concert right now, going to start a bible study and much more to reach out to those we want to accept Jesus as their Savior. Basically I guess the key or atleast for me is to be bold about it, they want to trash it, i'll be fine and just say ok and walk away
 
You have to be light to their darkness, the best testimony is a good life style.
 
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.
 
I realise that your first post was like a while ago, but my best advice is ask them a question. Get them wondering. Don't just come out and go "Jesus is the world's savior. repent or you will go to hell!" Ask them questions about life. Ask them where they think they will go when they die? How do they know they'll go there? Talk to them about the beauty of the earth, where did it come from? Get them wondering, human nature is to be inquisitive, when confronted with these questions they will want answers. So when they ask you what you believe, that's your time. The other thing is, sometimes it isnt meant for you to see the fruit ripen, sometime planting the seed is all you are supposed to do. Plant the seed and pray about them. If God wants you there to see the harvest you'll be there.
 
I sometimes ask - what came first the chicken or the egg - i belive chicken coz god put the animals in the garden of eden - then you discuss that and things move in :)
 
I sometimes ask - what came first the chicken or the egg - i belive chicken coz god put the animals in the garden of eden - then you discuss that and things move in :)
The chicken would have to come first, they egg can't hatch without it's mothers heat.
 
The chicken would have to come first, they egg can't hatch without it's mothers heat.

I know that - but if i wanted to strike up a convo about the lord most of the time i ask them what came first the chicken or the egg- and get there veiws and tell them how the chicken had to come first.
 
I know that - but if i wanted to strike up a convo about the lord most of the time i ask them what came first the chicken or the egg- and get there veiws and tell them how the chicken had to come first.
Gotcha, my bad. That is actually an interesting way. I do find that questions are the best because it gets them thinking. You dont want to be just shuving information down their throat, you want them to be thinking to.