They should formulate a blueprint by which the questions they ask drive the conversation straight to the gospel.

To avoid these dangers, believers should avoid using general, open-ended questions.

Additionally, if they have extroverted personalitites, asking a series of questions might inadvertently allow them to dominate the dialogue with responses or divert your intent for the conversation.

If the persons with whom you are sharing feel as though you are bombarding them with too many questions, it may cause them to become defensive.

Randy Newman’s book Questioning Evangelism is an excellent resource for those interested in learning more about this approach.

Jesus best modeled this questioning approach in encounters like those he had with a group of Jews (John 5:46–47), the man born blind (John 9:35), Martha (John 11:25–26), and the Pharisees (Matt 22:41–45).

This more comprehensive framework sets the gospel within a setting that hearers can both appreciate and understand. It also intuitively teaches and helps newly made disciples anticipate the need to read and study the Bible in order to grow in their understanding of God and his expectations of them.

Due to today’s prominence of evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the earth and humanity, believers may face difficult and time-consuming questions that arise from introducing the Christian story of the beginning.

First, they should guard against reducing the Savior to only a portion of the gospel story. By including a greater amount of biblical content and explaining more detailed doctrinal themes when sharing the gospel, Christ’s life, death, burial, and resurrection have may become a smaller component part of the presentation rather than the underlying an