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Appendix

ADDITIONAL EXERCISESAND RESOURCES

Presentation Checklist Page 2

Resources Page 4

Illustrations to Clarify the Gospel Page 6

Eleven Common Stall Questions Page 11

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Presentation Checklist

Use this checklist to record your impressions of your partner’s presentation.

Items Observations

Starting Spiritual Conversations(check the one used)

Direct Approach:

Question or statementDirect Invitation

Indirect Approach:

· Conversational bridge· Invitational bridge

His Story —

The Four Handles of the GospelMessage

God· Loving· Holy· Just

Us· Created good but became sinful· Deserve death (physical and

spiritual)· Spiritually helpless (“morally

bankrupt”)

Christ· God who became man· Offers His forgiveness as a gift· Forgiveness is a gift

You· Must respond - Receive Christ as

forgiver and leader· Result is a spiritual transformation

(by the Holy Spirit)

What worked well?

Areas for Improvement:

Were objections handled well?

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Crossing the Line

Assessing readiness· Have you ever come to the point

of asking for God’s forgivenessand leadership in your life, or areyou still in the process of thinkingit through?

· Where would you say you areright now in the process?

· Is there any reason you wouldn’twant to receive God’s gift offorgiveness and leadership rightnow?

Prayer· Ask for God’s forgiveness· Ask for God’s leadership· Give thanks

Celebrate and acknowledgecommitment

Taking the Next Step

· Get involved with other Christians· Pray· Read the Bible· Relate to non-believers

Was the Principle of Putting OthersFirst used effectively (checked forunderstanding, did not “dump”information, etc.)?

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Resources

Personal Evangelism: to further equip believers for action

Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg, ZondervanPublishing House, 1994.

Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry & Mary, Lee Strobel, Zondervan Publishing House,1993.

How to Give Away Your Faith, Paul Little, InterVarsity Press, 1966.

Life-Style Evangelism, Joseph Aldrich, Multnomah, 1981.

Out of the Saltshaker, Rebecca Manley Pippert, 1979.

“Adventures in Personal Evangelism,” Bill Hybels, Seeds Tapes Album, #AC8717.

“Rubbing Shoulders With Irreligious People,” Bill Hybels, Seeds Tapes Album, #C9023(includes great ideas for building relationships with non-believers).

Resources for Seekers: to give to your unbelieving friends

The Reason Why, Robert Laidlaw, Zondervan, 1970 (includes great illustrations of theGospel).

More Than a Carpenter, Josh McDowell, Tyndale, 1977 (readable presentation of someof the evidence for Christianity).

Basic Christianity, John R.W. Stott, InterVarsity Press, 1971.

What Jesus Would Say, Lee Strobel, Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.

Adam Raccoon at Forever Falls, Glen Keane, David C. Cook, 1987 (excellent book forchildren and their parents).

Christianity 101, Bill Hybels, Seeds Tapes Album #AM8623 (a clear presentation of theGospel message).

Faith Has Its Reasons, Bill Hybels, Seeds Tapes Album #AM8937.

The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel and Bill Hybels, Seeds Album #AM9215 (includesevidence straight from leading experts).

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Resources for New Believers: to give to your new believing friends

Bibles:

Life Application Bible, (Living Bible or New International Version), Tyndale HousePublishers.

NIV Study Bible (New International Version), Zondervan.

Spiritual Growth:

What Believers Must Know to Grow, Tom Carter, Evergreen Communications.

The Compact Guide to the Christian Life, K.C. Hinckley, NavPress.

• Enrolling in the School of Prayer, Bill Hybels, Seeds Tapes.• • Faith’s First Steps, Lee Strobel, Seeds Tapes.• • • General Christianity:• • Know What You Believe, Paul Little, Victor Books.• • Basic Christianity, John Stott, Zondervan.• • Christianity 101, Bill Hybels, Seeds.• • Evidences for the Christian Faith (Basic Level).• • The Reason Why, Robert Laidlaw, Zondervan.• • More Than a Carpenter, John McDowell, Tyndale.• • Know Why You Believe, Paul Little, InterVarsity Press.• • Give Me An Answer, Cliffe Knechtle, InterVarsity Press.• • Faith Has its Reasons, Bill Hybels, Seeds.

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ILLUSTRATIONS TO CLARIFY THE GOSPEL

Illustration 4: “X’s” and “O’s”

This illustration is aimed at those people who think salvation is a balancing act betweensins and good works. Imagine two scorecards. The first scorecard is for good deedswith an 0 for every good deed. The second scorecard is for bad deeds with an X forevery bad deed. They think that as long as the good works add up to more on thepositive side than the sins do on the negative side, they will have earned salvation.People like this think that God grades us on a curve.

There are some problems here:

• One “X” is too many (see JAMES 2:10)

• Our “O’s” fall short of God’s standard (ISAIAH 64:6)

• Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross would be unnecessary if we could place God withour own righteous acts. Yet Jesus said that His life was offered as a ransom formany (MATTHEW 20:28)

The good news is that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves. Thisillustration shows what happens when we trust Christ for salvation.

The results:

• By sending His Son to take our death penalty in our place, God canceled out our“X’s”.

• Not only did Jesus die to take away our “X’s”, He also offers us His righteousness- His perfect “O’s”!

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• He offers us the opportunity of salvation as a gift - we must respond and take it.Illustration 5: Single-Verse Evangelism

For the same people as the bridge illustration, especially those who have respect for theBible. Based on Romans 6:23.

Illustration 6: A Spiritual Equation

For religious non-believers who think intellectual beliefmakes them a Christian.

Believe + Receive = Become

John 1:12 says, “ To all who received him, to those whobelieved in his name, he gave the right to become children ofGod.”

This verse has three operative words: believe, receive,become. The equation is that if we believe the right thingsabout Christ, and if we receive him as our forgiver andleader, then we become true children of God.

Illustration 7: Baseball

For those with misplaced confidence in religion, especially if the person is a sports fan.

Earning our way into God’s favor would be like a baseball player trying to get into animaginary “All Universe Player’s Association” that requires a minimum twenty-yearcareer batting average of 1,000, with no errors. God’s standard is like that, alwaysdoing everything God wants and never stepping outside the boundaries of Hiscommands. Thankfully, that is exactly what Christ, our substitute (“designated hitter”)did for us, followed by dying to pay the full price for our shortcomings.

This fits well with the Do vs. Done and the Roman Road illustrations.

Illustration 8: Niagara Falls

For those that need a clearer picture of what real faith is. It also shows our helplessnesswithout Christ.

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This is about a man who was rolling a wheelbarrow back and forth across the NiagaraRiver on a tightrope. Thousands of people on both banks cheered him on. Next he puta two-hundred pound sack of dirt in the wheelbarrow, and rolled it across and back.

“Who believes I can roll a man across?” he asked. Everybody cheered and shoutedtheir agreement. The tightrope walker then asked, “Who will come and sit in thewheelbarrow?”

The crowd grew entirely silent, nobody was willing to risk it. Although they professedbelief, nobody was willing to act on it. And so it is with Christ ...

Illustration 9: Marriage

For a cultural Christian who “knows all about church and religion” but does not knowChrist.

A bachelor may say, “Sure, I believe in marriage; I’m sold on it. You should see all thebooks I’ve read. I’m an expert on the subject. Besides, I’ve been to plenty of weddings.Funny thing though, I can’t quite understand it. Marriage doesn’t seem real to me.’”

Very simply, this person has not discovered that to become married, a man first believesher into his life. To get married, one has to make a commitment and say “I do,”committing himself to the other person and establishing a relationship. It involves a totalcommitment of intellect, emotions, and will.

While we may smile at this bachelor, some of us may be just like him. The parallel isobvious. Someone may “know” all about Jesus, but not know the Lord himself. Being aChristian requires committing ourselves to a living Lord.

Illustration 10: Airplane

For the same person as the marriage illustration, who needs to understand that beyondhaving a right knowledge of the facts, a step of action is required.

We are often like the woman who wanted to fly to Phoenix. She studied all aboutaviation, discovered which airline had the safest record, went to the airport, found theright flight, checked over the airplane, and even interviewed the pilot, only to stand onthe runway and watch the plane takeoff without her.

Many people know all about the Bible, the Gospel of Christ, and the forgiveness andnew life available for the asking. But, they never “get on board” by actually asking forand receiving what God has for them.

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Illustration 11: School

For those who compare themselves to others and believe that, because they think theyare morally above average, they are OK. This illustration works especially well withstudents.

Many people assume that God is like their teachers in school who grade on a “curve”.However, the Bible tells us that is a false hope. God is completely just and thereforemust judge all sin, even “average” sin.

The good news is that while God does not grade on a curve, He will do something evenbetter. He will take the test in our place, someone who will get a perfect score! JesusChrist did that by living a perfect life in our place, then by dying to pay the penalty for oursins. Why not ask Him to “apply His perfect score to your grade book” by asking Him toforgive your sins?

Illustration 12: Swimming to Hawaii

For anyone who struggles with self-righteousness, thinking their goodness will somehowget them back to God. This illustration is simple and clear.

Suppose we decided to swim from California to Hawaii entirely unassisted. That’s about5,000 miles, give or take a few, practically the length of the Pacific Ocean. You mightmake it farther than me, and an Olympic Gold Medal swimmer would make it fartherthan either of us. The fact is that nobody can do it.

That’s the way it is with trying to live up to God’s standard. We all fall short (Romans3:23). We all need help from God to make it, and it is Christ who made it possible.

Illustration 13: The Judge Illustration

This story helps explain how God resolved the tension between His justice and His love.God is just. Therefore a price must be paid for sin. Justice must be served. Wesinned. “The wages of sin is death.” (ROMANS 6:23) No matter how much God loves us,sin must be justly dealt with.

God is love. (1 JOHN 4:16) He desires that we are reconciled to Him. God paid theprice Himself, by His own free choice, as a great cost. He came down from His glory inthe form of a man, Jesus Christ. He paid the price for us on the death of the cross

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outside Jerusalem around the year 33 A.D. There can be no doubt of God’s love andcommitment to us.

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Eleven Common Stalls

1. How do I know God exists?

• The design in the universe and the smallest cell points to a Designer.

• There exists cause and effect in our universe, so it is reasonable to assume a firstCause.

• Most people have a sense of falling short by some standard of fairness andgoodness. Is it not logical to suggest that it comes from some absolutegoodness?

• What will you accept as proof?

• God broke into history in Jesus Christ, miracles and revelation. If God is at work,He must exist!

• Every age and every culture has produced people who have experienced aReality beyond reality and who have responded with awed adoration that whichwords cannot describe. You could point to your own experience.

2. Do I Have to Believe in Miracles?

a) The real question is whether or not God exists. If God exists, then He can domiracles. Consider Christ’s resurrection. It was a supreme miracle that pointsdirectly to the fact that God exists and can do miracles. See John 20:3-8.

b) Some say that if they saw a miracle they would believe. The opposite is reallytrue. If one has enough faith to believe in God then seeing a miracle will act as acatalyst to their faith but is not necessary for belief. The person who ispredisposed not to believe after seeing a miracle will not be any more prone tobelieve.

c) A miracle may be seen as a higher law.

Illustration - Imagine a conversation between a flower, a dog, a man, and God:

FLOWER: It’s hot here in the sun.

DOG: That’s no problem. I’ll move to the shade.

FLOWER: You can’t do that.

DOG: Sure I can (and walks under the tree).

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FLOWER: That’s a miracle! (It would be a miracle for the flower because theflower is a different kind of being than the dog).

DOG: Let’s go hunting.

MAN: First let me read the weather report.

DOG: You can’t get weather from a paper!

MAN: Sure I can (and he reads it).

DOG: That’s a miracle! (It would be if the dog did it because he’s a different kindof being).

MAN: (the next day on a hunting trip the man shoots a duck and it drops in thewater) Shoot, my duck fell in the water! Now (to his dog) one of us will have toget wet to retrieve the duck.

GOD: No, I’ll just walk out on the water and get it (and he does).

MAN: That’s a miracle! (It would be a miracle for the man because he is adifferent kind of being than God.

3. Isn’t the Christian Experience only psychological?

a) All religion is a psychological experience so if a person is after an experience anyreligion will give you that. If, however, a person is seeking real truth, thenexperience not longer is an adequate guide. Jesus Christ did not ask people tohave the right experience but to be rightly related to Him and do God’s will.

“If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comesfrom God or whether I speak on my own”. (John 7:17)

b) Some will contend that all religious experience can be traced to man’s feeling aneed for God, creating an image in his mind, and then worshipping the mentalprojection. His supposed spiritual reality, of course, lacks any objective reality. Inlight of that, how do we know if the Christian hasn’t just hypnotized him/herselfinto believing what they want to believe?

ILLUSTRATION: Suppose someone walks into the room with a fried eggdangling from their ear. They say, “This fried egg is the greatest! I get joy,peace, and purpose in life from it.” What do you say? How can you argue withthat? You can’t argue with his experience but you can ask a few questions.“How do you know it’s the fried egg and not auto-hypnosis that’s giving you thisfeeling? Who else has gotten the same benefits out of the egg? To whatobjective fact is this experience tied?

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Christianity differs from auto-hypnosis, wish fulfillment in that the Christian’ssubjective experience is securely rooted in an objective, historical fact, namelythe resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ.

c) It is of utmost importance to keep both the experiential and the intellectual inperspective. The fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead means nothing to mepersonally or experientially until I receive Him as Lord and Savior in my own life.On the other hand, if I have only my own experience, I’ll sooner or later beginwondering if it is real or merely self-suggestion. Experience needs to be basedon the solid foundation of an objective fact in history.

4. If Christianity is true, why is the church full of hypocrites?

• Jesus taught that true and false believers would exist side by side until the end(see MATTHEW 13:24-30). Is the practice of medicine useless because somedoctors are sued for malpractice?

• The presence of hypocrisy affirms Jesus teaching that we all need Him. IfChristianity were not true, then you might be able to find a perfect person otherthan Jesus.

5. Is Christ the Only Way to God?

a) “Sincerity must count for something,” someone says. The problem with that logicis that sincerity alone doesn’t make you right.

Example: If you are sincerely going to Vancouver yet are heading east on theTrans-Canada, it doesn’t matter how sincere you are, you won’t get there.

b) “Jesus as the only way to God is too narrow”, says someone else. Answer:Truth is always narrow. “For there is one God and one mediator between Godand men, the man Christ Jesus” . I Timothy 2:5.

Example: Cars take gas not kool-aid, ketchup or water. Airplanes land at airportsnot at parks.

c) The idea originated with Christ himself.

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Fatherexcept through me’.” (John 14:6)

d) All other possible ways to God are WORKS religions and offer no possibility ofassurance.

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Examples: Confucius, Buddha, Hinduism, Islam teach that it’s up to you to get toGod.

The problem? Salvation by merit (a religion based strictly on the keeping of lawsand rules) is impossible to live up to. Human philosophy assumes that “If a manis aware of what he ought to do, he is quite able to do it” but the Bible says “wecan’t and we don’t; but God has a different plan” (Romans 8:3 LB).

The solution? Salvation by grace (a religion based on God rescuing us from ourpit of sin by Christ coming down, living up to God’s perfect standard, and thenoffering to us the gift of eternal life). “But God demonstrated his own love for usin this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

e) Jesus is the ONLY WAY to God because he is the only cure for our sin problem.No one else has offered a cure that’s adequate.

f) Was Christ right or wrong? You must decide because that will determine whatyour choice should be.

THE ONLY OPTIONS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST:

He was either right or wrong

If Right If Wrong

Lord Knew It Self-deceived

Liar Lunatic

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6. Won’t a Good Moral Life Get me to Heaven?

a) People say that many non-Christian people live better lives than many Christianstherefore God should accept them. The problem is that God’s standard isPERFECTION.

“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect”.(Matthew 5:48)

b) Perfection comes not through being “good” but through what Christ did on thecross.

“God made him who had no sin (Jesus) to be sin for us, so that in him we mightbecome the righteousness of God” (II Corinthians. 5:21). See also Isaiah 61:10;Colossians 2:10-14; Hebrews 10:14.

c) The Bible presents man as being cursed, perverted, evil, and spiritually deadtherefore we can’t be good enough for heaven on our own.

“There is no one righteous, not even one...for all have sinned and fall short of theglory of God” (Romans 3:10,23).

d) Note that other world religions say the opposite.

The Koran says, “Then he whose scales are heavy shall dwell in bliss, but hewhose scales are light, the abyss shall be his home; it is a scorching fire.”

Buddhism says, “...by ourselves become we pure, no one saves us butourselves.”

e) Good works will not reach God’s standard for goodness that we need to get intoheaven.

EXAMPLES:God’s standard

⇑ ⇑ ⇑ ⇑⇑ ⇑Man’s performance

* Swimming to Hawaii* Jumping to Europe* “If God grades on a curve I’ll make it”* If you get 59 on a test where 60 is passing, you fail even though those 59 where good

answers.* If you could keep it down to where you only committed 3 sins a day that would only be about

1000 a year. Now multiply that by your lifetime.

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* To say “I’m doing the best I can” and actually do it is impossible unless you know what the“best” is. Therefore, you cannot do your best unless you know exactly what the standard iswhich you must reach.

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7. What About Those Who Have Never Heard Of Christ?

a) Men are lost because they are sinners, not because they haven’t heard of Christ.

b) God is fair.

“Will not the judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25).

c) People know of God through nature.

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - his eternal power anddivine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has beenmade, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20) See Psalms 19

d) People know of God through their moral conscience. (Romans 2:1,14-15)

e) If people seek God, God will send someone to them to tell them about Christ.(Jeremiah 29:13; Acts 8, 17)

f) The less revelation you have the less punishment you will receive.

“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering towardslaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighsthe heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repayeach person according to what he has done?” (Proverbs 24:11-12). See Rev.20:12.

g) The heathen (the person who has never heard) is not excused because they havenot heard. God doesn’t repeal a law just because we have not heard of it.Example: Gravity is still in force if you jump off a building even if you haven’t heardof it.

8. Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors?

a) Note: The Bible claims to be shaper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12)and when used becomes the sword of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) whether aperson believes in it or not.

Illustration: If a person tries to attack you in the park and you have a knife but theattacker says, “I don’t believe in that knife,” you don’t put it away because hedoesn’t believe in it. It’s the same with the Bible. We mustn’t treat the Bible as wedo Santa Claus and Mother Goose, requiring people to believe it is true before wetalk about it. You only do that if something is false. Something that is true is self-authenticating as it is used.

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b) The manuscripts available for the New Testament take us back closer to theoriginal writings than any other ancient work.

Author Written Earliest Copy Time Span inYears

Number ofCopies

Bible (NT) 45-100 AD 350 AD 50-300 13,000Herodotus 460-425 BC 900 AD 1300 8Caesar 480-425 BC 900 AD 1000 10Tacitus 100 AD 1100 AD 1000 20Plato 347 BC 900 AD 1200 7Aristotle 322 BC 1100 AD 1400 5Catullus 54 BC 1550 AD 1600 3

“From the standpoint of literary evidence the only logical conclusion is that the casefor the reliability of the New Testament is infinitely stronger than that for any otherrecord of antiquity”.

(Howard Vos, Can I Trust My Bible)

c) Josephus (a 1st Century Jewish historian) said: “And there was about this timeJesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man, for He was a doer ofwonderful works...He was the Christ. And when Pilate...had condemned Him tothe cross, those who had loved Him at first did not cease, for He appeared tothem on the third day alive again: and even now the tribe of Christians so namedafter Him has not died out.”

d) Someone who says the Bible is full of errors should be gently asked, “Are youtelling me that you studied the Bible through and found it to be full of errors; orare you telling me someone told you that and you bought it without checking isout?”

e) Archaeology always confirms the accuracy of the Bible and shows it to be trulyreliable.

f) The unity of the Bible is evidence for its divine origin. The Bible was written:

over 1500 yearsin 66 booksby 40 authorsin 3 languagesover 3 continentswith 1 message

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g) Jesus and Paul stated that the Bible was accurate and true.

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law and the Prophets; I have not come toabolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17)

“All Scripture is God breathed...” (II Timothy 3:16)

h) Fulfilled prophecy gives evidence for the accuracy of the Scriptures.

Examples:* Place of Jesus birth (Micah 5:2 vs Matthew 2:1)* Triumphal entry on colt (Zechariah 9:9 vs Matthew 21:6-11)* Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12 vs Matthew 21:6-11)* Innocently on trial yet makes no defense (Isaiah 53:7, Matthew 27:14-19)* Crucified (Psalm 22:16 vs Matthew 27:35)* Burial (Isaiah 53: 9 vs Matthew 27:57-60)

Note: 50 major and 300 minor references to Christ in the Old Testament.

i) To those negative about the Bible ask them, “Do you understand what the Bible issaying?” If the response is “I don’t believe what the Bible is saying,” restate thatthe question is “Do you understand the Bible not do you believe it?”

If they remain negative then ask, “Is it intellectually sound to reject somethingbefore you understand it? Let me first share what the Bible says, then see if youwant to not believe it.”

9. If there is a God, why do the innocent suffer?

a) God does not want suffering - Satan does.

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may havelife, and have it to the full”. John 10:10

b) Some suffering man causes.

Examples: starvation is because of the mismanagement of our resources notbecause there isn’t enough food; drunk drivers kill people; good things are abusedsuch as love , power, government, money, sex, food, trust, freedom, intellect andknowledge.

c) Some suffering man does not cause (4 things need to be remembered when thishappens)

◊God created the universe perfect (Genesis 1).

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◊God gave man a choice (Genesis 2).◊We chose evil (Genesis 3).

◊God cursed the universe to match man’s fallen condition (Genesis 3:17;Romans 5:12).

d) Seven things God could do:

1) He could have created us as robots who couldn’t sin but there would be no lovesince love requires the freedom to choose love.

2) He could have not created us at all but that would indicate that God was notinterested in creating a creature who could love him back.

3) He could do away with evil right now but that would mean doing away with us.

4) He could make hell or earth not bad but that would mean there would be nonegative consequences to bad choices. And choices need consequences to betrue choices. If there are no consequences, then there are no choices.

5) He could let everybody on earth into heaven but that would make heaven likeearth and the problem of suffering wouldn’t be solved.

6) He could make everyone perfect (sinless) then let them into heaven(universalism) but that requires no choice therefore eliminating love.

7) He could make everyone perfect (sinless, then let them into heaven if theychose to receive the free gift of eternal life. That’s what he did making Christ theobject of our choice.

e) To answer the question “Why would a loving God send people to hell?” we cansay:

• Jesus came to bail us out from hell not to cast us into hell. “For God did notsend the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the worldthrough him” (John 3:17).

• You can’t solve a problem by pretending it doesn’t exist. To say it doesn’t existis to disagree with Jesus and that is a big risk.

10. Haven’t I always been a Christian?

• A lot of people know about God without even knowing Him. There is a bigdifference between having Christ “with” you in life and having Christ “in” youbringing life.

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• Since God has NO grandchildren (your parents’ faith or religion or churchdoesn’t qualify you for heaven). You need to make a specific commitment ofyour life to the care and control of Jesus Christ.

11. I don’t have enough faith to believe.

• All you need is a tiny bit of faith, enough to take the next step.

• Jesus was matter-of-fact: “Embrace this God-life. Really embrace it, andnothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: just say, ‘Gojump in the lake’ — no shuffling or shilly-shallying — and it’s as good as done.That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small tolarge. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’severything.” (Mark 11:21-24, The Message)