by MichaelAllen » Mon May 18, 2015 12:02 am
Dude, there is not "a way" of presenting the gospel. It's going to be different for each person with whom you speak.
Here are some things to keep in mind though:
1.) How well do you know this person?
2.) What is their view on the Bible? (i.e. do they attend church somewhere? which one?)
3.) What is their current view on race?
4.) How do they feel about conspiratorial viewpoints of history?
5.) Where are they at on the mainstream political paradigm?
6.) Is this person satisfied with their current belief system?
7.) How eager are they to learn something new?
8.) How much time are you about to have with this person?
9.) How much time will they feasibly give to verifying what you tell them?
There are probably other things you might consider beyond these, but I don't want to give the impression that I have some sort of checklist like this that I'm actually marking off, but these are all thoughts that I have had at one time or another when I'm about to engage someone with the truth - I had to actually sit here and think these up and compile them.
So, with point #1... if this person knows you well, you have to determine what is the best way to bring it up. If they know you well, they already ought to know what you believe anyway, Lol, but I understand that you may be new... so if you are... the best thing that I can recommend to you while you're in a "newbie" state, don't take someone to task as if you are trying to teach them something, because if they break out a question on you that you aren't ready for, they're gonna write you off as dogmatic. I learned this the hard way.
The first person I reached with the truth effectively, I wasn't even intending to reach them per se. I just said something like, "Man... I've been reading some crazy stuff lately about the Bible, and in a nutshell that the people of Europe actually descended from the dispersions of ancient Israel, and this is why the gospel was dispatched into Europe after the time of Christ, because the prophet Jeremiah foretold that there would be a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah. At first I thought it was really just some hair brain concept, but these writers I'm reading are actually backing up their claims with the Bible, and I'm really not sure what to make of it."
What happened when I said this was, he didn't feel like I was trying to proselytize him, and he started firing off questions almost automatically, and if I didn't know an answer, I just said, "I don't know how that fits into this paradigm yet. I'll have to think about it, and study it out."
It was literally an accidental conversion. This person was one of my own brothers.
If you don't know them well at all, then it helps greatly to ascertain points #2-#9, and you're not gonna get all of those answered by just talking yourself... so, I'd say the best thing to do, is really learn to listen to people. People want to talk more than they do - give them the chance, and really focus on what they are saying and what they are trying to get across. Be a good listener first, because you never know what someone is gonna say that gives away their inner thoughts on some of the peripheral issues.
Also, keep in mind that CI theology literally touches so many issues, and it literally has a lot of admonition to offer our current culture, government, economy, etc. The standard churches (and their antinomian viewpoints) have no way of evaluating the world around them from a Biblical worldview, and thus, they really don't offer the culture any alternative to what they find in mainstream pop-culture. So, in reality, you can strike up a conversation with any person about just about anything, and at some point you can relate it back to the laws of God.
If the person is extremely dissatisfied with politics, there's a good chance they are going to be aware of the economic forces at play in the world today - especially because of the world wide web. A lot of people out there know about the jews. Even a lot of niggers know about the jews!
If they are a churchgoer and they are southern Baptist, you've got an IsraeLIE lover on your hands... so you can point out the fact that in their own documents, jews often will admit that they are not the Israelites of the Bible.
If they are a churchgoer and are not IsaeLIE lovers, then you probably have a replacement theology adherent on your hands... well, you'll have to know how explain to them that the phrases in the New Testament about "WHOMSOEVER, ALL MEN, etc" must be understood in a selective way. It is "whomsoever" in a context.
If you are trying to reach white nationalists who are anti-Christian, then ask them what has convinced them that Christianity is anti-white. Most of the time they'll tell you about the history of the Catholic (and yes, Protestant) church, and crimes that they committed. It's easy to explain to them that neither of these churches has ever taught Biblical Christianity, which is only for white people. Join in with their accusations of what organized religion has done. Be able to explain the history of Judea to both white nationalist anti-Christians and dispensational theology judeochristians. Most of these people have no idea that there were two types of "Jews" at the time of Christ. There was a fairly large group of forced converted Edomites, and that the original fight was an ethnic battle right there in Jerusalem between talmudist and the true-born sons of Judah.
These are just a few things to keep in mind.