[Christopher Hunt]

[Christopher Hunt]

I have found this story effective in getting across the understanding that we need to respond to God’s Love: Imagine you are in a trench during a war and the enemy throws a grenade in the trench and your friend throws himself on the grenade taking the blast and saving everyone. Then one of the guys says to your dead friend ” I didn’t ask you to do that” . You want to punch that guy in the mouth because instinctually you know that love requires a response.

[Christopher Hunt]

[Christopher Hunt]

[Christopher Hunt]

Please use the turbine story. I agree getting someone to pray is very effective, sadly one thing among many that I fail at is trying to gently get a commitment to pray on a daily basis even for a few minutes a day..
Anything I post is free to use, there is no need to ask but please post stuff that you have found effective and impactful.

[Christopher Hunt]

I found this useful when talking to someone who had a lot of suffering in their life and was questioning why God allowed it: ” First thing that might help is that God didn’t spare Himself from suffering . That Jesus who is God suffered more than all of us put together “( * being seen by the Father with all of our sins on Him * Feeling the abandonedment of the Father would have infinite suffering due to the infinite Love Jesus has for the Father) and then ask this question ” If you were a father who loved your child would you cut the child’s arm off to punish them? ” they answer no . Then you ask ” if your child’s arm was caught in a turbine and it was pulling them in would you cut the arm off?” . They answer yes then you reply” so you would cut the child’s arm off out of love ?God can see the turbine when we can’t ” (( I have used this a few times and it has been effective))

[Christopher Hunt]

I found this description of God’s Love impactful ” God Loves us so much that He gave us His only son Jesus Christ to die for us .Let me clarify this if you are a good father and you love your son who is harder to sacrifice yourself or your son (they answer but your response is nearly the same what ever they say) it’s more expensive for a father to sacrifice his son then himself that is why you see a father putting himself in front of his family to protect them from danger .When God the Father gave us Jesus it wasn’t because it was cheap and easy, it was the most expensive thing He could have given if God had anything more expensive He would have given it to us. He doesn’t hold back His Love not for you not for me not for anybody”

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