Live Now Live Later

10 most common reasons I’ve been given over the last 12 years in no particular order from people not believing in God or choosing not to become a Christian:

1. I believe in science and evolution which contain FACTS. God and the bible is just a bunch of fairy tales and myths.
2. Jesus didn’t rise from the dead and neither do people. There is no afterlife. This life is it.
3. There’s a bunch of religions. All of them lead to God
4. White man religion
5. I can’t serve a God who would allow so much evil and suffering in the world.
6. I don’t do “organized religion”. All these churches want is your money.
7. As soon as I get myself together then I’ll become a christian.
8. Churches are full of hypocrites
9. The bible is full of contradictions and error.
10. I believe in a Higher Power/energy source that created everything, but not in the sense of it being concerned about humans and what they’re doing.

I’ve heard a lot more, but these objections seem to get brought up more frequently than others. One thing I’ve learned over time is that if you’re a follower of Christ and desire to see people enter into a saving relationship with Jesus, you don’t have to know everything there is to know about God and the bible to share your faith with someone. Jesus doesn’t require that you and I first go to seminary and then become a expert theologian before we talk about Him with others. If that were the case, He would never have given the command first to 12 “low-classed” and “unlearned Jews”(Acts 4:13). Now by no means am I advocating that you should remain “spiritual dummies”. Just like we invest a lot of effort into being experts in our various career fields, hobbies, and sports to name a few, we should also put AT LEAST the same effort into growing in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus.

Something else to consider, the person you’re talking to doesn’t know everything there is to know about what they claim to believe. They might try to act like they do, but they don’t. If they did, they’d be God. Our goal is NOT to win an argument/debate but to win a soul to Christ. Never Forget forget this:

Ultimately, God is the one that is doing the work in bringing them into a relationship anyway. You’re just the tool, He’s the Mechanic (John 6:44, Acts 16:14).

That might have been a BAD analogy, but I think you get the point lol.

Furthermore, If you’re talking with a person and they express a different belief system and have objections, my advice would be to allow them to talk without interrupting.

Ask questions like:

“Who and where did you get that information from?” or “What do you believe happens when we die?”.

These questions can lead to more dialogue. Ask OPEN-ENDED questions that make them EXPLAIN what they believe. In many conversations over the years when I ask “What do you mean by that exactly” in response to something they said (Sometimes I say that every time they make a statement), it becomes apparent to both of us that they really don’t know what they believe or talking about. I’ve come to learn over time

A lot of times people aren’t looking for reasons to believe the truth, but in actuality they are looking for reasons NOT to believe truth. Its called a “hardened heart” (Ephesians 4:18, Proverbs 28:14, Hebrews 3:8).

Don’t get sad if they don’t come to know Lord at that moment. Depending on where you live in the World you might here a lot of rejection. We are NOT just trying to get someone to PRAY A SPECIAL PRAYER, MAKE A DECISION, or ACCEPT JESUS INTO THEIR HEARTS. Such things are WIDELY POPULAR in many christian circles, but we see no evidence of the apostles or anyone throughout the New Testament trying to get people to do this. We’ve been commanded to make DISCIPLES (Matthew 28:19). Just commit to pray for that person that Holy Spirit will continue to send people their way, working to break up that “stony hard heart”.

Just like He did it for us, He’ll do it for them too…