Andrew from Benton, Kansas writes in, Pastor John, you once described how you would explain

Christian hedonism to somebody overlaunch at Pizza Hut.

Realizing divine election may take a bit longer, what is the easiest way to share this with

someone and with what key scripture would you explain it over, say, a weekend brunch?

What would you say, Pastor John?

Okay, so we're moving from a Christian hedonism pizza hut lunch to an election lunch,

a weekend brunch, some more time.

brunch, okay, yeah, all right, good, now I'm going to assume that we're talking to

a Christian, I don't know if that's the intention, but I'm going to assume that because if the

person were not a Christian, election is not where I would go first, I would go to the

gospel, I might get around to election and they may have a question about it and that

would be okay, but that's not the first on the agenda.

So my first assumption is we're talking to a believer who's got some stumbling blocks

or problems with the doctrine of election is not sure what he believes about it.

And I'm going to assume that we're on the same page with regard to the authority, the

Bible, because I don't think anybody comes to the doctrine of election without believing

that the Bible teaches it and submitting to the Bible.

So that's what I'm assuming.

Now, here's my approach.

I would not start with election directly.

I would start by asking this person to describe to me how they got saved.

That is, tell me how you were converted, or actually the words I would use to make it

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