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What Are Some Good Ways to Start a Conversation About God with Family Members?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Questions about how to start a conversation about God with non-Christian family members, how to keep from becoming emotional when discussing faith issues with family, and the best way to alert people to the fact that they’re members of a cult.

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0:00.0

This is Amy Hall here with Greg Kokel, and you are listening to Stand to Reason's hashtag STRASK podcast.

0:19.2

And Greg, today we have some tactics questions.

0:23.1

All right.

0:23.3

And we're going to start with one from Bob.

0:25.1

What are some good ways to begin and have a conversation about God with non-Christian family members?

0:31.7

Well, the answer to any question like that from me is always going to be to ask a question.

0:39.0

And the key, though, is figuring out the best time to do it and the best way to go about it.

0:48.2

Family can be hard to deal with.

0:50.0

In our case, we have five kids in our family. My sister was a year in two weeks, then me,

0:58.4

then Mark two years down, and Dave two years down, and Bonnie two years down. So my mom and dad

1:04.4

had a pretty tight shot pattern, five kids in seven years. And it was the middle child, Mark, who became a Christian first. And then

1:13.4

that was during the Jesus movement. Of course, there's a lot of hubbub culturally about Jesus. And so

1:19.1

he was all fired up and talking to us and wanting us all to get saved. And through his witness in

1:24.3

our life, all of the kids became Christian.

1:28.0

And my dad eventually became a Christian at the end of his life, but it wasn't directly

1:32.1

through us.

1:33.4

So this can happen.

1:37.1

This could be a really powerful way of God using someone in your life or you and your family's

1:43.9

life.

1:44.1

However, it also is rife with difficulties. Right. of God using someone in your life or you and your family's life.

1:47.4

However, it also is rife with difficulties.

1:52.5

And in the case of my dad, for example, he wasn't interested in hearing anything we had to say.

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