by R. Larry Moyer
CEO, Evantell, Inc.

I’m afraid the person I want to witness to will ask questions I can’t answer. How do I handle that? Part II 

Anyone active in evangelism will tell you the power of the Gospel is unfathomable. A young man who trusted in Christ at an evangelistic outreach told me, "I walked into this service a convinced atheist. Your message was not designed to prove there is a God, but simply answered the question, 'How can a person live forever with the God who does indeed exist?' I cannot explain what happened as I sat there and listened, but God convinced me that He's real, and I want to trust Christ."

Keep your conversation as cross-centered as possible. A person who can't understand how God can allow so much suffering, or wrestles with how God can condemn those who have never heard of His Son, still has to face the cross. The cross leaves no question about God's love. He made that abundantly clear when His righteous Son died for unrighteous people (Romans 5:6–8).

The more cross-centered the conversation, the more difficult it is to refute. A college student once told me that the world's many imperfections, which God surely would not allow if He loved people, were keeping her from Christ. I pointed her to the cross and then told her, "you might question God's intellect or wisdom, but you can't question His love. Would you do what He did?" I'll never forget her astonished reply: "I guess I've never thought of that."

As you ponder questions an unsaved person might ask, remember there is nothing wrong with admitting, "I don’t know." Offer to give his questions some study, but don’t feel defeated if you need to say, "I'm not sure I can answer that."

People who have all the answers are not necessarily those who do the most in evangelism. Rather, those who do the most are characterized by love for the lost and zeal for the Lord. Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators, hit the nail on the head by saying that people are not "soul winners" because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how much they want others to know Him.