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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

What Should I Say to Someone Who’s Apathetic?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to questions he received about speaking to someone who’s apathetic and the Spirit’s role in evangelism, then he talks to callers about whether churches need a lead pastor, Jesus’ words in Matthew 27:46, and answering a Mormon’s objections to the Trinity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hello friends Greg Kockel here the show is stand to Reason and I'm glad that you've joined me here today I hope I can give you a piece of my mind and many of you calling and there's a lot in the queue right now

0:40.6

You can give me a piece of yours. So that's the point of the show here. Making the case

0:45.8

that the Christian understanding of the world, the Christian view of reality is

0:51.8

an accurate one, it's a factual one. It's a true one. There's a

0:57.5

difficulty using the word true nowadays because it's misunderstood. That's why I

1:01.4

start out with factual and whatever the word else, the other word was that I use, but, you know, we, accurate and factual. That's what we mean by true. We're not just talking about our

1:14.6

fantasy now. It may turn out to be our fantasy, but that's not what we think and

1:19.2

that's not what we're advancing. We're willing to think about it and to see whether our views and our

1:26.1

claims are accurate or not, but we're not offering ice cream here, we're offering insulin, so to speak.

1:35.0

I had, last weekend when I was in this great

1:45.0

this great little town called Buffalo, Wyoming population 5,000, and worked with the great church there, summit church.

1:48.0

I had a couple of questions.

1:50.0

Actually, one came during the Q&A and the other one came afterwards in private conversation, but they were kin to each other and I want to mention something about them before I jump into the calls here. I won't take long. So if you're on hold, just just hang in there I'll be get to you shortly and

2:05.2

Thank you for your patience but one of the questions was what do I do do

2:09.5

What do I do with a person who just seems apathetic, who just don't seem to care.

2:17.2

They talk to them about the Lord and they say, well, that's all right, it doesn't matter.

2:21.8

You know, I'm not going to worry about it now I'm doing

2:23.6

fine I don't need that I'll find out when I die or some kind of dismissive attitude

2:29.7

and you know I was just thinking about it as I was saying that that's to some degree the attitude I had

2:39.4

Before I became a Christian for some years before that.

2:42.9

I was at Michigan State University.

2:44.6

My brother Mark was not.

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