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Throughout their faith journeys, every Christian encounters lifestyles and outlooks that test and even defy their trust in Jesus Christ. Your instincts may tell you to refute these opposing viewpoints with clever arguments and witty retorts. Unfortunately, these responses can push others away. Worse, they may not clearly reflect the loving attitude of Christ.
Quick to Listen will help you lend a caring ear to those who hold these beliefs. This eye-opening tool helps you build relationships with evolutionists, atheists, Bible skeptics, and friends and members of the LGBTQ community based on genuine Christian compassion. Whether they continue to attend church or give no time to Christ, Quick to Listen equips you to acknowledge and understand their experiences and perspectives.
Christian insights follow the accounts of these challenging experiences and perspectives and point you straight to the Bible to affirm and clarify your faith. The scripture shared in Quick to Listen will then fill you up with the love, empathy, and understanding you need to reach out with the Word and share "the reason for the hope you have . . . with gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 3:15).
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Speaking the truth in love Review by Adam
This book helps the reader come to grips with real, challenging anti-Christian sentiment but in a way that has us showing love to these people who are loved by God yet currently spiritually lost. It does not bend on Scriptural authority yet shows us how to listen, love, and engage even the toughest opponents with the goal of bringing them to faith in Christ. So the book walks a very fine line, which can be difficult yet it is done well. I think the book provides beneficial preparation especially for parents and kids as young adults head out into the world for college/university - as well as anyone wanting to be prepared for difficult spiritual conversations. (Posted on 6/9/2019)
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unpleasant Review by Andrew
The writers assume that Christians today are too judgmental and mean to those with false beliefs. That may be possible to a degree. However, to counter act this, the writers go into the other ditch of pandering to those of false beliefs. They assume that we can live in a world where Christians are not offending the world, that we Christians can and should learn morals and ethics from the unbelieving world. As soon as a person looks to the world for the wisdom of God they have just proven themselves foolish. It is not the viewpoints of the world that will challenge the reader's faith in this book, rather it is the viewpoints of the interviewers that will challenge their faith. Which makes this book extremely dangerous. (Posted on 2/5/2019)
