This is Stanter Reason's hashtag STRASK podcast. Welcome.

Greg, today, today, in the last episode, in the second question that we had was about

easy beliefism and only needing to believe in Jesus to be saved, but then, you know, your

life reflects that.

So I have a few questions that follow somewhat from that, and I've one from Jim, one from Mike, and one from anonymous. And they're all fairly similar, but they're asking for a little bit different things from you. So here we go. The first one comes from Jim. My brother thinks he's going to heaven because he has an intellectual belief that Jesus is the son of God. But he lives like a non-believer and doesn't really show any signs that he is going to heaven because he has an intellectual belief that Jesus is the son of God,

but he lives like a non-believer and doesn't really show any signs that he is following God.

I'm afraid he's going to fall into a group of people like Matthew 723. We're not very close.

How can I initiate a conversation to bring this up?

Oh, I think, I'm groaning because I think this is a difficult

issue to deal with. And the reason is, is because essentially what you're saying to your brother

or your friends, whoever are facing this kind of circumstances, you think you're saved,

but you're not. That's a hard sell.

And of course, we don't say it quite so bluntly, but that's the basic thing that we're

communicating.

And we have to find a way to express that.

And it's going to be different, I think, with different kinds of relationships. I think one way

of addressing that, and I've talked about this before, is to ask the person, and this is a little bit

more of a distant relationship. You say, you know, you've talked to me about you being a Christian,

but I'm confused about that a little bit.

Can you tell me what you think it means or what do you mean when you say that?

Now, 65% apparently are the people in this country self-identify as Christians, but it's obvious

that those 65% are not disciples of Jesus and followers of Jesus in any robust sense.

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