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How do you start a spiritual conversation? Here are three tips to get a conversation going.
Key Points:
- Ask worldview questions. These sorts of questions will help a person articulate the presuppositions underlying their opinions and beliefs. These are questions like: “Is there a God?” “What is the meaning of human life?”
- Ask personal questions. What are people’s dreams, hopes, and aspirations? What is important to them? When talking about goals and values, we can ask people to consider things they haven’t considered before.
- Talk about apologetics. You can ask people how they logically arrived at their beliefs. Have they read religious or philosophical literature? By raising the apologetical questions of Christianity, people may become interested in asking more.
- By asking how people arrive to conclusions, you can get them thinking about important life and spiritual topics. In philosophy, this is called the Socratic Method.
Quote This:
Matthew 16:13-16 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Talk About It
- What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- What is a good question someone has asked you in the past? Why has it stuck with you?
- What are some good “worldview questions?” How do you think these questions could get people thinking about deeper things and their underlying assumptions and beliefs?
- Why is it good to ask people about their goals, hopes, and aspirations? How would you feel if you were asked about those things?
- How do you think apologetics – addressing tough questions and objections to Christianity – can help get a conversation started?
- In what ways could asking good questions be a better method of starting spiritual conversations than looking to lecture someone or debate them?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
