#208 The 8 Best “Conversation Moves” to Win Converts (YOU can do this…) - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Women used to say things to her like, I know abortion is wrong, but I just can't have a baby right now. |
| 0:04.6 | And then my wife used to say, what do you call what's in you? Women spontaneously say, well, I call it a baby. But that made it possible for my wife to say, then it sounds like the real issue for you isn't whether you can have a baby right now, but what you're going to do with the one you say you've already got. And you don't have to tell them that. |
| 0:21.5 | You can let them tell you that. |
| 0:23.6 | And you can already got. And you don't have to tell them that. |
| 0:21.5 | You can let them tell you that. |
| 0:23.6 | And you can just help highlight that by asking questions to get them to state the obvious. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome back to James Popery. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Joe Heschmire. |
| 0:31.3 | And today I want to share with you a 2011 talk that I heard many years ago that totally changed |
| 0:37.1 | how I approach evangelization and |
| 0:39.3 | apologetics and which I find myself mentally going back to pretty frequently. |
| 0:43.3 | For a half-hour talk, the sheer number of times where some line from the talk is very |
| 0:48.8 | relevant and pops into mind in a critical moment. |
| 0:52.1 | It's incredible the impact it's had on me these now 14 years later. |
| 0:55.9 | So I wanted to share it with you. It's by Jay Buttigiewski. And it's on the topic of what's |
| 0:59.9 | called natural law. And I was reminded of it because someone asked me a question about natural law |
| 1:06.2 | enrollments two yesterday. And so I mentioned the talk and I said this. He gives a great talk |
| 1:10.7 | at I believe Westmore College many years ago. He gives a great talk at I believe |
| 1:11.0 | Westmore College many years ago. I might, I might do an upcoming video where I just unpack |
| 1:16.0 | this because I think this is so beautiful. I would love to sort of take these principles of |
| 1:21.0 | like how we can use natural law for evangelization. Okay, so first things first, yes, I'm wearing |
| 1:26.3 | the same shirt that I wore yesterday. In my defense, I forgot I was going to be on camera both days and thought I could get away with it. You know, it looks clean. But second, and more importantly, it is in fact a talk he gave at Westmont College. It's a chapel talk, like a reflection. They invited him in to come and speak to the students. And he spoke on a suburbure that he's actually written |
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