After work today my boss and I were engaged in a lengthy discussion about Predestination/Election and Free Will. One would not have to think very hard about who argued for what...<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> After taking him to the Scriptures we were basically right back where we started, me saying believers are predestined by God unto salvation and him saying man has the choice etc. etc.

I should've prefaced this with the fact that he is very much a "professor" of faith and after the conversation I felt that I should have stuck to simply sharing the gospel. Well now that the conversation is over it's too late for that but where do I go from here? How do you "break through" to one who knows mentally what the gospel is, enjoys having theological discussions but NEEDS the gospel to penetrate the heart. I don't believe the discussion was fruitless however. I think my emphasis on the fact that a man dead in trespasses and sins has not the "will" to come to Christ made him think a little bit and we ended on that question-"How can one who is dead in sin and consumed in wickedness with no desire to seek God will himself saved?"

Should I just leave it here and see what happens? And more importantly, if I do get the opportunity to share further what is an accurate way to present the gospel (in the distant past I have used the ol' Bill Bright Campus Crusade method <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> or the "Roman Road")...For some reason I thought Pilgrim or someone had an outline for this. If so, can I be reminded?

tj
"-that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection..."