A few weeks after starting classes at Cal Poly, Jonathan asked his dad, my friend David, to fly down and spend a few days with him. One evening Jonathan asked if he could invite three or four of his new friends to go out for pizza with them. A Hindu student named Abhi and two other friends readily said yes.

After the pizzas were ordered, David turned to Abhi and asked, “So, what do you think about Christianity?” Abhi railed on and on about Christianity’s faults. Instead of correcting Abhi’s factual errors and misperceptions, David encouraged Abhi to keep talking. Then David started asking Jonathan’s other two friends what they thought about what Abhi was saying. It turned out the other students were shy but fairly strong Christians.

In the end, David didn’t address one of Abhi’s issues. Finally, Abhi started admitting he really didn’t know that much about Christianity, and he started asking questions. In response, David called it a night, encouraging Abhi to consider reading the Jesus story with any one of his three Christian friends. “Why call it a night?” you might ask. In this case, before anyone gave Abhi the “right” answers, he needed to start finding them in God’s Word while reading the Gospels and falling in love with the Savior personally. 

This is Luis Palau.