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Are you a good person?
if so.....
are you good enough to get to Heaven?
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How to Respond to Questions and Objections When you witness, you will encounter all kinds of people who have all kinds of responses, questions and objections. You will encounter the people who are turned off by religion or who have been hurt by a church, the homosexual who tries to justify his lifestyle, the person who doesn’t believe in a literal hell, the one who believes we were created by a big bang, the Jewish person, the person who considers themselves to be “good”, the person who believes their sin is too large to forgive, the one who calls himself an atheist, the person who believes the Bible is full of contradictions, and the one who wants to be in hell with his friends picturing themselves with a half a can of beer, elbowing their friends, giggling and laughing, and many, many, many more case scenarios. There are two reasons why people ask questions about God or state their objections to Christianity: 1. They are genuinely seeking God and have legitimate questions. 2. It is the enemy’s way of sidetracking the presentation of the gospel with “rabbit trails." Sometimes an unsaved person will have genuine difficulty with evolution, hypocrites in the church, etc. but oftentimes they make hedges behind which they try to hide from God, as did Adam. For ex: "The Bible is full of too many contradictions." Usually they can't name even one, but it is what they say to try and get you off of their back. General Guidelines in Responding to Questions and Objections 1. Overcoming objectives people give when witnessing should be seen as great opportunities to bring people to Christ. The people who give objections to you while you are sharing Jesus are reachable. The one’s who are the hardest to reach are the one’s who just won’t talk. 2. Learn the key scriptures that will help you answer the questions people ask. Study to show yourself approved. (Have them turn in the Evidence Bible Table of Contents). 3. The way to deal with objections is with the Word of God. The person may say, “Well, I believe this…” You say, “But the Word of God says…” They say, “I believe so and so.” You say, “But the Word of God says such and such.” 4. Always try to bring a soul winning conversation back to them personally. Inevitably, people talk about the fallen preacher, or the hypocrite who claimed to be a Christian. When they are standing before God, the question isn’t going to posed to them about how Jimmy Swaggert conducted his life, but what they, themselves, have done with their knowledge of Jesus. You tell them that there will always be people who are hypocritical or fall from grace (hell will be full of them), but it is their life and their relationship with Jesus that will count. 5. Don’t pretend to have all of the answers. If you are asked a question that you can’t answer say, “I don’t know, but I will try to find out for you. One thing I do know for sure is that Jesus is always the answer.” We aren’t supposed to be omniscient. God is. 6. Avoid arguing at all cost. The Bible warns us to avoid foolish questions because they start arguments. If the person you are witnessing to starts arguing, stop cold in your tracks, end the conversation in love, shake the dust off your feet and go to the next unsaved person. 7. If someone gets angry, respond with a soft answer. But remember that anger is a thousand times better than apathy. Anger is a sign of conviction. 8. Don’t spend too much time answering objections and questions. Remember it is the gospel that is the power of God unto salvation. It is important to swing from apologetics to the gospel as soon as comfortably possible. 9. Remember, comebacks to questions and objections, aren’t meant to provoke anger, or make you sound clever, but to provide further conversation and thought. 10. Rely on God to fill your mouth with the words to say.
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