Summary of: Cross Examining the Attorney by Greg Koukl

How should you go about talking to someone who believes in God and has morals, but doesn't believe in Jesus Christ? There are different ways to go about this. A gentle route and a not-so-gentle and blunt route. The gentler route is probably the best one to take when communicating with people!

It might be easy to say to this particular person- no Jesus=Hell and Jesus=Heaven. But they need to understand why they must believe in Christ not merely because if they don't they go to hell. Maybe this next method adapted from Greg Koukl's idea on this scenario will be of help.

Koukl says: why not start out with something that both parties agree on--morals. A person who has morals will most likely believe that if a moral crime has been committed then punishment should follow. "But doesn't everyone commit a moral crime at some point or another, including you?", could be the follow up question. The answer that is sure to follow is "Yes". So what happens now? Jesus is what happened! God sent Jesus to pay for the punishment we all deserve. So if Jesus isn't important and doesn't really need to be a part of what we believe, what else can save us? Nothing.

Hopefully by this point everything has gone smoothly. There is nothing more you can do except pray and try to answer any questions that they have. Though it took longer to get the point across they now understand without someone being to short or blunt!

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