13: Opening Up to Change

In their journey toward Jesus, our friends eventually may get to the point where they ask, “Could this change me?”

Sometimes it sneaks up on people unexpectedly. They’ve been exploring ideas or talking with a Christian friend, and suddenly they realize, “Something is happening inside of me.”

We want to be really attentive to this moment when it’s happening for someone.

We can help them begin to connect the dots.

Sources: Luke 1:38 (ESV)

Luke 18:22-33 (ESV)

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955).

John Paul II. Dominum et Vivificantem [Encyclical Letter on the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World], The Holy See, May 18, 1986.

Daniel Goleman, Emotional intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (10th Anniversary ed., New York: Bantam Books, 2005). Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008). 

Friendship Evangelism: The 5 Thresholds toward Faith, InterVarsity Evangelism, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.

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