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This is a very good topic.


Here's the thing. I've learned that when you open up to people little by little usually they open up to you as well. Maybe you have this type of relationship with him. I don't know. When sharing your past experiences tell him how you got through it personally. Its the hardest thing in the world to have a friend that you care about so much and not know how to reach them. It's all about living your life for Christ.


I think what "pushy" is depends on the person. But in general i would have to say just being a better person for Christ.....

Look up the poem "footprints" it helped me a lot when i was young, for I suffered physical and mental abuse myself. It may help him, like it did me. The best ye can do, lass, is pray for him and lead by example, don't get angry when he pushes it away, because if he's anything like I was, he's afraid and blaming God. Don't give up on him.

umm, she's not trying to sneakily change him....uumm, let me say this, so you better understand where christians are coming from....not all christians because some of them are as you think people who just want to force their beliefs unto other people, however their are some christians who want to spread the gospel because well...well not every christian has the same reason but I will tell you mine....ehem, otay I have reason to believe their is a GOD and their is a hell I do not want people I am close too, or happen to like burn in that hell so I preach to them, not because I want to offend which by all means might happen when preaching to them. I do not mean to subjagate or belittle their beliefs because I realize hey this is how they were raised or what they have come to understand and trust for about whenever they formulates their beliefs. I'm honestly not trying be a jerk, but I have reason to believe what I do, and that is why I evngelize, it's kinda like you have reason to believe that the roofing over your neighbors house might not be too secure so I go and tell him hey I think maybe your roof isn't too secure you might want to do something about that or else it might crash down and kill you(not the best example, but I tries) but anyways yes thats basically what I'm think of when I want to evangelize to people and again not to be a jerk to them, even if I might come off as one because evangelism is offensive to other people.

well the way I see it you have nothing to loose from just listeining to the message, and trying to find out if theirs a GOD....well actually if there is one then he make you give up your sinful habits so yea, but ummm, if there's not one then you can be like whatever and go on about your business and your life. To make what I am saying simpler because I think I may have confused myself, if you just listein to the gospel try it out and find out that there's no GOD, then just be like whatever and go about your life before, if there is a GOD(Yahweh) then you should problably get to know this GOD and confer with him on how to change your ways so in the end you are not caste into...you know...that one place.

dude are you pulling a Jesus and doing a parable.

well one of my best friends is an athiest and the other day for the first time i tried to tell her about christ but i could sense that she felt uncomfortable and so i just stopped. what i'm trying to say is that just try to maybe tell him a testimony of yours or tell him how you got saved or tell him about jesus, but if he tells you to stop, just stop. that's when i know i'm starting to sound pushy.

my biology teacher is christian and he was talking to us one day about when he was an athiest years ago. he said that he had this one friend who was christian, and his friend would talk to him about christ a lot. Mr. Remy [my teacher] would push his friend away many times and pretend like he didn't care, like he was positive that there wasn't a God. but deep down, everytime his friend would talk about christianity, remy would get intrigued and started thinking "well what if there is a God" so anyway he wrestled with that thought for a while until one day when he was camping i think, he was looking up at the stars and he knew that there HAD to be something more. He knew that his friends and family and the universe just didn't pop out of nowhere, he realized that there really was a God and he gave his life to Christ that night.

you see, we can make a difference. if you really want your friend to become christian, just talk to him about it one day and like i said before, if he tells you to stop then just stop. but you never know if my teachers story will repeat itself with your friend. just remember that it's his choice, if it's meant to be it's meant to be.

oh im in a christian school, he teaches biology but he doesnt teach things like evolution. i respect what you believe and i understand why you believe it because it does in fact have some evidence to back it up. but i believe that there is a God and i know that we weren't put on this earth just to live and die. it's not a matter of proof, it's a matter of faith. think of it this way, i would rather be a christian, die, and find that there is no God, than be an athiest, die, and find out that there is.