Discussing Christianity with People Hostile to it

 A Beautiful Apologetic by Frank Turek

Discussing Christianity with People Hostile to it

When the word 'Jesus' splits your family. What then?

Frank Turek responds:

Scenario:  Somebody says something negative about Christians: 

“It's obvious when they say something like that it's not an intellectual or academic issue it's an emotional issue.  Somebody's hurting over something.  There may have been somebody in their past who was a Christian and wronged them or abused them and so they don't want to have anything to do with it. 

They're associating Christianity with that person or that traumatic event so you can understand it.”

Get them into a comfortable place to talk and ask them:

"Do you mind if I ask you a question about that?  It seems that’s a sore spot for you, do you mind if I ask you why that is?”

I mean don't try and give them evidence that it's true, just say, "I'm trying to understand why you're pushing it away because - What if it's really true?

Why wouldn't you want it to be true? 

Wouldn't you want the God of the universe to take your punishment on himself?  Who wouldn't want that?

Know why?  Because they're associating Christianity with cultural Christianity

They're associating Christianity with things they may not agree with or like, but at the end of the day Christianity is Jesus and the fact that he came and died for us and took our sins from us is something that should be front and center.