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Ask Away

When is someone ready to receive an invitation to follow Christ?

Ask Away

Vince and Jo Vitale

Religion & Spirituality

4.9714 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you have people in your life who have heard about your faith and have engaged with you on spiritual topics, yet you are longing for them to actually respond to the Gospel? But when is the right time to extend an invitation to them to follow Christ? Are they ready? What if they aren’t? Should the invitation be the culmination of a process of sharing the faith or the very starting point for it? And shouldn’t an invitation be experienced as an honor and a gift, even if someone feels they need to RSVP “no”?    Vince considers these and other related questions on this week’s Ask Away, as he invites each of us to make it a New Year’s resolution to be more invitational with the Gospel in 2026!   ------ We’re so glad you joined us for Ask Away. If you have a question that needs answering, we’d love to hear it. Send us an email at askawayquestion@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at ‪(321) 213-9670‬. Ask Away is hosted by Vince and Jo Vitale, and produced by Studio D Podcast Production. New episodes come out regularly, so make sure to subscribe. The best way you can support Ask Away is to leave a review. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for Ask Away, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review’ and tell us what you think. If you’d like to see videos from Vince and me, invite us to speak, or make a financial gift so that more people’s questions can be heard on Ask Away, visit Kardiaquestions.com See you next time, and remember, if you have a question, it’s worth asking.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I was a skeptic who came to faith through asking hard questions.

0:04.2

I'm a long-time Christian whose faith was challenged by hard questions.

0:08.4

Whatever your story is, we all ask questions.

0:12.0

But some questions are more difficult to answer than others.

0:15.8

And some questions keep us up at night.

0:18.4

Who am I?

0:19.6

Does my life have value?

0:21.2

What determines my identity and purpose?

0:23.7

Is there a God?

0:24.9

Does he care?

0:26.0

What will happen when I die?

0:27.8

Is it even possible to know the truth?

0:29.7

We believe every question is valuable, and we receive every question as a gift.

0:35.8

So welcome to the podcast, where we invite you to ask away.

0:41.3

Hey everyone, happy new year. Vince here. Good to be with you again. And I'm praying for all of us

0:46.2

that this will be our most fearless and faithful year yet. And I hope your year is starting off

0:51.9

on a healthy note, which is decidedly not the case here

0:55.7

in the Vitaly home. We went both to New Jersey to see my family and to England to see

1:01.8

Joe's family, which we were so thankful for over the holidays, but we all got sick. And so you'll

1:09.9

have Joe and me together for the next episode,

1:12.3

but you're stuck with me for today because I am the least sick in the family.

1:17.9

We thought about whether Raphael could take an episode or maybe JJ,

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