I want to ask.
How should I approach an apathetic person and talk about Christianity?
Ever since I moved into the city, I find a lot of people in the university so apathetic that its appalling. I wager its the result of having all they had wanted all their lives. They seem so cooped up in their mansions that they really don't have any care in the world.
How do I persuade them that there is a higher calling?
I appreciate your replies, thanks.
~ Grey
"ג Magna opera Domini, ד exquirenda omnibus, qui cupiunt ea." - Ps. 111:2 [NVV]
"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither." - C.S. Lewis
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:
How should I approach an apathetic person and talk about Christianity?
No. If you do that you'll be as annoying as a mosquito buzzing in his ear. Just be yourself! and have the person question you about what makes you so enjoyable to be around.
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:How do I persuade them that there is a higher calling?
You can't. God, working through the Holy Spirit, is the One who will persuade them. As for you, just be ready.
FL
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:
How should I approach an apathetic person and talk about Christianity?
No. If you do that you'll be as annoying as a mosquito buzzing in his ear. Just be yourself! and have the person question you about what makes you so enjoyable to be around.
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:How do I persuade them that there is a higher calling?
You can't. God, working through the Holy Spirit, is the One who will persuade them. As for you, just be ready.
FL
excellent answer.
It would be a blessing if they missed the cairns and got lost on the way back. Or if
the Thing on the ice got them tonight.
I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:
How should I approach an apathetic person and talk about Christianity?
No. If you do that you'll be as annoying as a mosquito buzzing in his ear. Just be yourself! and have the person question you about what makes you so enjoyable to be around.
GreyDeSilvisanctis wrote:How do I persuade them that there is a higher calling?
You can't. God, working through the Holy Spirit, is the One who will persuade them. As for you, just be ready.
FL
Thanks so much for the advice, FL.
It's awesome that my friend gave me a similar answer.
neo-x wrote:
excellent answer.
Indeed.
~ Grey
"ג Magna opera Domini, ד exquirenda omnibus, qui cupiunt ea." - Ps. 111:2 [NVV]
"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither." - C.S. Lewis
Matthew 5:14-16
"14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
-- 1 Thessalonians 5:21
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
-- Philippians 1:6
