Friendship Evangelism

One of the things we talked about in our training on Saturday was Friendship Evanglism. The main thing said about it was that you have to get past the friendship to the evangelism... I think I like the idea of intentionally asking people if they'd like to study the Bible with me.

Tonight I was out visiting Mehdi and Zahra with another gal and at the very moment where I was wondering if we'd ever get to the evangelism part, we started a very long conversation... [Now this couple has been meeting with some retired missionaries to study the Bible, so I said more that I would have normally said.]
In some ways he was playing the devil's advocate, in that he didn't believe all that he was arguing. Mehdi said he believes what all prohets say, in essence morality.
I learned that he and his wife believed that all of the prophets were perfect.
He couldn't see the need for Christ's sacrifice. He felt that God is great enough to forgive us without having to shed blood.
Mehdi wanted to know why God hadn't sent people to the Chinese earlier... the fate of those who have never heard of Jesus/Mohammed.
He couldn't understand how God would set people up for failure.... and what happened to those who died before Jesus came. 1 Peter 3 talks about Jesus preaching to those who had died, and Mehdi was arguing that all those before Jesus would accept him because satan wouldn't be there tempting them.
And how could Jesus be tempted in the wilderness....
PJ would be proud as I actually drew the bridge.

I want my Biblical Foundation of Missions handouts...