People with difficult questions

When an area has become markedly Christian, the people who are not yet believers are the ones with the most difficult questions and challenges.

When the Gospel sweeps through an area, it quickly takes in all the seekers – all the people who want to believe.

Those who are left, who at each opportunity offered say “no” to the Gospel, are the people who have reasons for their “no.”

As more and more of an area becomes Christian, the fewer and fewer nonbelievers left will be the ones with the hardest questions.

Will seeker-oriented strategies work when most of the people in the region are not seekers?

It might be easy to dismiss them as hardened sinners. Instead, perhaps we ought to ask why they say “no.”

Listening values them as an individual. Jesus hung out with sinners, meeting them where they were. He had harsh judgments primarily for religious hypocrites.