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What’s the Most Effective Way to Present the Gospel?

February 18, 2020

What’s the Most Effective Way to Present the Gospel?

25 min

What’s the Most Effective Way to Present the Gospel?

25 min

Episode 382 Show Notes

From the Show

I think the best way to start is by focusing on the gospel story itself. That’s why we have four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each tells the same story from a different angle with different emphases.

—Michael Horton

Questions in this Episode

1. What do you think is the best resource or direction to talk to someone who is a non-believer who is unable to wrap their mind around the Bible and the tenants of Christianity? What do you think the best approach is?

2. Does God show grace to everyone and do people just reject it?

3. What do you think is the most important thing people need to know about prayer?

Resources

Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story by Micahel Horton

Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions by Gregory Koukl

The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between by Gregory Koukl

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Michael Horton (Ph.D., Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Coventry University) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media.

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