Reflective Questions on Communicating Faith
Following are 17 questions that can be used as a start-up by
your answering the 5 most important questions on this
questionnaire according to your estimation.
QUESTIONS ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE YOUR FAITH MORE EFFECTIVELY
1- If you can't communicate your faith effectively, how strong
is your faith?
2- To communicate your faith effectively, you have to know it.
Could you define your faith?
3- How do you communicate your faith? In business? At home? In
your community? Etc.?
4- What do you think of the Socratic method (listening and
asking probing questions) as a communication tool to help the
listener recognize his or her need for a Savior?
5- How many people have you saved (converted) or led to Christ
in the past twelve months?
6- Should a Christian determine (judge) who is or is not a
Christian when communicating his or her faith?
7- Should a Christian communicate his or her faith through
mental persuasion, or through witnessing at an opportune moment
what faith has done for him or her? Who really converts, the
Christian or the Holy Spirit?
8- In your Church, assuming you had the authority, would you try
to set up an Evangelistic program if none existed? Why or why
not?
9- What is Evangelism and does the word "Evangelism" have a bad
connotation? Why or why not?
10- Should your church emphasize Evangelism or Christian Growth?
11- In a pastor, should one look for leadership or shepherdship?
By leadership I mean one who leads without looking back to see
if he has lost any of his congregation. By shepherdship I mean
one who follows his flock to take care that he does not lose any
of his congregation.
12- Would the best approach in teaching the Gospels be by
teaching them concurrently or as a whole rather than in teaching
them separately as the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
Have you ever tried this former approach?
13- Is setting up neighborhood Bible or Gospel study groups
whereby you can invite your neighbors in to participate, a good
tool to use in communicating your faith? Can and could you use
it in your situation?
14- One person suggested that since we have two ears and one
mouth, we should listen twice as much as we speak. Do you agree?
15- Should communicating your faith be more of a dialogue rather
than a monologue to be most effective?
16- If a person rejects the Christian message, is he or she
really rejecting Christ or the Christian messenger?
17- In conclusion, how do you think we can continually educate
Christians on how to communicate our faith more effectively
(either through the Internet or by other means)?