Sharing the Gospel? *
Sharing the Gospel How can we share the Gospel with people who have a worldview different from our own? Two Iranian college students, Arak and Emman were having coffee at a Donut shop and agreed to discuss their beliefs. Emman believes “When we die, we die, that’s it” and Arak believes we all have a spirit that lives on after we die, but didnt think we can’t know anything beyond that. I told them some of the things I know about Iranian spiritual beliefs from previous conversations with Iranian students – about how many view Islam as a colonizing influence over their original Persian culture and Zoroastrian religion. Sharing what I had learned about their culture did a lot to quickly build up some rapport with them in much the same way that 45 minutes of listening won the trust of a young Buddhist man a few days earlier. Is this a biblical form of evangelism in much the same way that Paul demonstrated his knowledge of Athenian culture by r...