Christians need your help?

Question

I need advice to give my friend who isn't saved.
Any good advice to make my friend a believer?
She is 17 I would hate to see her go to hell. She is very sweet,kind,and caring person. I haven't said anything about God to her yet. I'm just waiting for the right time. And I think tomorrow is the right time to tell her about God. I just need help on what to say to her.

Answer 1

Hi Luke, no doubt you are going to get a lot of stupid answers to this question that wont be helpful at all.

I think that it is really important that you bring up the topic of christianity and God just naturally as part of your conversation. If you are a christian, then the topic will come up because it is a big part of your life. For example "what did you do on the weekend?" "oh went to the movies on Saturday, went to church Sunday morning - which was really great, and then just chilled Sunday arvo"..."you go to church?" "yeh - do you" "no" "why not?" etc.

All you have to do is share from your own experience and understanding. Sharing how real God is to you will inspire respect.

God bless mate,

Ben.

Answer 2

Why do you think she doesn't know about God?

If she's an American, she's heard about God. If she is from somewhere else, then maybe you'll tell her something new.

If she is a sweet, kind, and caring person, then do you honestly believe that God would punish her? If you believe God can be so cruel and heartless, then perhaps it is you that needs to be made a believer instead.

After all, if she doesn't believe in God, then she must have a good reason, and why would God deny her that reason? If God is the god of love, then he would show her mercy when she needs it.

Answer 3

Dude.... no one ever got convinced by words alone. Just be cool and mention it in passing or invite her to fun events. but mostly, just be a good person and man of god and let that do the talking. Don't pressure her. Don't judge her. Just be an example and pray for her. The rest is HER decision - not yours. So don't condemn her or judge her or pressure her, ever, about conforming to your beliefs.

Answer 4

We are to lead by example. you could invite her over for a meal, and simply pray before the meal. You could talk about how you love God, and how so many wonderful things have happened in your life since you came to know Him. Never presume that anyone is going to hell. That is a form of judgement, never presume you are not going. We all have areas of growth.

Answer 5

Pray and let the Lord lead you; maybe if you have a youth ministry at your church, invite her to one of your activities. Make sure you are living a Godly life before her and that is what will make her the most inquisitive! God bless!

Answer 6

I have found that the best ice breaker is to ask about her thoughts on God. Then talk about what the Lord has done for you.

Answer 7

Why must you people feel the need to preach. Why not let her make her own decision. She might not need "saving", maybe its you who needs to be saved

Answer 8

Tell her that God loves her so very much and if she new how much she would cry for joy.

Answer 9

Till now, whatever topic that has come in front – in that that the advice of taking divine path and worshiping it to get it has much been talked about. But, god ( Almighty ) is not a substance to be lost or to be found. Neither ‘he’ get pleased by your worship and offerings, nor does he get irritated for being scolded. This sky of infinity is the prime soul and we are in it. The earth is in a size of a needle tip in comparison to its whole body. It pervades every where. It is not separate from you and you are not separate from it. Then, who are searching for ? Inside and outside of you, every where its representation is visible. If you think “I” am here; then also prime soul is there. If you think “I am not here”, still prime soul is there. Neither anything is lost by you, nor are you going to get anything. Try it ! try standing on one leg for thousand years carrying out penance.

If the worship of a special manner had any power in it, then the bus packed with pilgrims would not have fallen to the pit down hill. And, you wouldn’t have spent rest of your life being crippled. Your deeds and circumstances decides your destiny. You consider somebody a god whom you don’t know at all. The body of the prime soul is this creation only. The sun, moon are parts of this creation, and these human beings are tiny part of the same. Likewise, if the sun and moon are gods then you also are Gods. Thus, God’s existence is not effected whether you worship or not. Off course, it is a truth that the materials used for worshiping are mind purifiers for their sacred odor or properties.
This universal setup is preprogrammed as a video games in a certain manner. The ‘remote control’ to run it properly is only in your hand. Miss it ! and the game is over.

The course of development is Darwin’s Evolution Principle is stated as – no human civilization was present in the beginning, but human being is the result of series of development that occurred to a creature. From a four legged creature only human being got its present form by straightening up its spine to become caveman, and got the present purified form long time after that. The day spine gets properly straighten up, it will turn into a species having divine personality.

In the mind of stone, it longed for producing something superior that it. This resulted in the creation of river. The river wanted something superior than itself – the vegetation got produced. From the vegetation, animals of superior qualities were created, and then creation of human being took place like this, the serial development is going on. In the mind of everyone creating something superior than itself is wished, after lot of transformations human being will achieve divinity, and it will get merged with the Almighty then every inert or conscious of the creation is the combine representation of germs and atoms. The sky stretched infinitely. The hugeness of it can never be described in words. With, even billions of year of journey we cannot major the sky in any direction. The whole creation represent the combined or reduced (energy, gas) form of atoms and germs. Like this, the creation is an unit. A tiny part – like molecule of sand, molecule of clay, molecule of water, a plant of vegetation, a part of machine, a creature, we are self- activated part of the creation. Feeding on and digesting one another or shaking hands with nature we change our forms, the shape is made or get destroyed, but the quantity remains the same. Starting from a small molecule to the bigger spheres, all of them are bound to an automatic system as if they follow certain law or regulation. Just because they are made from ‘energy’, all of them are independent and are on motion.

Our body is also a self-run machine. In that, there are several systems which controls and activates different functions and particulars of the body. During the process of development in a creature, by means of its will power, it develops different systems and different specialties in itself. It has come to this stage now. Inside the body of human being-bring, lungs, intestines, heart and all are functioned automatically. Only the up-keep of those are in your hand. And, after thousands years of effort only human being could develop such an anatomy of its body. Joy, miseries, fate and new being – everything is based on your ability of their maintenance. According to your will power and deeds, your surroundings get effected. And, with the activities of all the creatures, the creation get influenced whatever we do, according to that only the ‘creation’ get better or get worse. Likewise, the effect on the ‘creation’ ultimately affects us. Harming the creation will result in our own destruction. Our functioning is the function of the creation. Our thinking is the thought of the creation. Every act of us is done by it (God) through us. If a nail is pierced in any part of our body, the whole body feels it. Like that the creation is like a body, and our betterment lies with the betterment of it (creation) as a whole. The coal get transformed in to diamond; like that ,man will get transformed in to ‘God’ or ‘Demon’ one day. Our thought waves effects others. Whatever is there today, it is spread by us only. The next generation will be either of ‘Divinity’ or of ‘demons’ if the thinking level of us contains purity, the generation of ‘Divinity’ will come up, certainly. Otherwise, you can not tolerate a generation of ‘Demons’ later. The creation will reach the verge of destruction. Changes are the law of a world. The coming generation will have these two types of personalities. One s of ‘Divinity’ and other one will be of ‘Evils’ (Demons) Both will be powerful to the extreme level.

The impure mentality will lead to the creation of ‘Demons’ As the neck of the goat is in our clutch today, our necks will be in the clutch of the clutch of the ‘Demons’ then. they will not understand our (human) language. Human being will be helpless that time. They will be slain by those ‘Demons’ and will be eaten by them as well. And, in their law eating of human being will be considered as a gift from nature; as we are feeding on the vegetation and other animals, as animals are feeding on the plants, as the plants are feeding on the earth, as earth feeds on the stones. Everyone is feeding on one another. But, the wish of all of us is that-the next generation coming up must be a better one. This “will power’ of us will so us that day. Isn’t it possible that we all become ‘DEVTAS’ (Divine souls) together? There should not be any Demon, or they should be out numbered by the people filled with ‘Divinity’ To achieve that, we have to become a complete human being first. The animal instincts in us should die down completely. Come, let’s try to be a complete human. If people having strong ‘will power’ to become ‘Demons’ will emerge first, then the black shadow of destruction on this planet will cover the ‘sun’ of development. History will be repeated on this world; it will go through the phage of destruction, and the civilization that is existing today will be wiped out.

The ruins of sindh valley, pyramids of Egypt, Maya civilization of Maxico are the remains of previous civilization flourishing on this planet. Human has lost everything even after reaching to the top. Like that, the radiation from sun, radiation from nuclear weapons may destroy this world again. Not a single species will survive then. Oceans will start bobbling. Sky will turn red. Volcanoes will erupt and earth surface will be covered with ‘lava’. The skin of the sky will be torn apart. Everywhere, only fire will be visible. Melting of the ice in polar region will cause the world to be covered with water. Nothing will be left here. The new life may emerge again only after millions of years. Isn’t it possible that, this civilization will continue to develop without any hindrance, get saved from the destruction, so that the human can rise to the optimum level ?

Whoever is born will die one day. The life span of germs is in seconds, the insects have it in days or months, animals and human beings have it in years. The life span of a civilization is some thousand years, the planets have some million years of life span, a universe has some thousand million years Universes are produced in the creation, and get destroyed after a certain period. And, this is a continuous process, this can never be stopped.

A SUCCESSFUL LIFE
In today’s world, how will you successfully live the life to achieve salvation after death ? For this – a person’s life should be like ‘a drop of water on a lotus leaf’. One should not get much involved in the worldly life, even after remaining in this world, every incident including both joy or sorrow one should be watched being occurred to you, and accept them considering them to be ‘law of creation’. Let us improve ourselves, but not at the cost of others’ interest. Help others, but not to the extent for which they will climb top of your head. Distribute alms, but to the limit of your own capacity. The next step of superstition is deception. Relatives – they always become the victims of delusions, that is why it is advisable to be clear regarding your opinions. Think about yourself though the heart of others. Go for self analysis and try to do away with your own weaknesses, expand your business in such a manner that you can control it comfortably. Take bigger steps after consulting few more people and after examining the ‘pros and cons’ of that act, before helping any body, be sure that the persons concerned is not cheating you.

Abstinence should be exercised on the life from every corner. Take care of the feelings of others as well as the time factor. Talk that much what is required be watchful towards your duties and responsibilities be attentive towards the job your doing at present and don’t think over any other matter while carrying out some task, because it may cause some accident, don’t loose patience even at the worst of circumstances. Don’t let the laziness and negativity enter into your mind, they are greatest enemies of human being keep your self happy to the optimum level. Adore the power of eternity, but don’t waste your time appeasing it much. Almighty is always with you who is a witness to every act of yours. Human being is at the apex of infinite potentiality.

You can do everything, can get everything, can become everything and you can go as for as your imagination can go. All potentiality is hidden inside you. You have to fix a target first and lay promise on it, and get yourself involved until you achieve the goal. With your power of strong determination you will generate the ability in yourself to achieve the goal. Only, a strong determination and faith is required.
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