Q. Your articles seem to answer a lot of questions from people who have at least some Bible knowledge. How do you approach unbelievers who are -

-inquisitive?
A.I approach it with this thought. I use the book of
Nehemiah as an example. Nehemiah was sent to rebuild
the walls of Jerusalem after they were destroyed. The
people had turned from following the Torah and God
allowed the enemy to come in and destroy what the
people where putting their trust in(their walls) and
they were then led into captivity. An unbeliever is
like a city whose walls have been torn down by
unbelief. Nehemiah went in and didn't say anything at
first but surveyed the city to assess the true extent
of the damage. After he had seen what needed to be
done, he then set about to rebuild. That is what I do
at first. I look at the person to get an idea of the
damage done, which is always unbelief at the root. If
he doesn't know the Lord I start there and then lead
him to the Torah, which is the the foundation of the
faith and all the other Scriptures (2Tim 3.16-17). A
good, solid wall needs a good, solid foundation.
Spiritually, he needs to know what has caused the
damage in the first place and that is sin and
transgression of the Law(Torah) is sin (1Jn 3.4).
Nehemiah got the people to turn to God in order not to
repeat the same errors and that is what needs to be
done with an unbeliever. Once he turns to God, he
needs to have the Torah as a foundation to build his
spiritual "walls" again. Many are taught today that
the Torah has been done away with but that is a lie of
the enemy who does not want the walls built again
because he can't get ar rhe person anymore. Deception
and accusations won't work anymore. Nehemiah ran into
the same problem. Once they started to rebuild,
Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites,
Ashdodites heard about it and they became very angry
(Neh 4.7-8). The breaches in the walls were being
repaired and they tried to stop it. It's the same
today. Once you start working with an unbeliever and
show him how to rebuild his walls and repair the
breaches, the spiritual Sanballats and Tobiahs will
become angry and try to hinder the work by saying that
"the Law has been done away with", "the Law is
bondage", "God never told you to rebuild your walls
like that" and so on. So, you have to work with one
hand and have a spiritual weapon in the other until
they give up. So, I try to discern what the damage to
a person (city/walls) is and then lead them to the
Lord and then help them rebuild their walls brick by
brick, or scripture by scripture. It is long, hard,
tedious work and it is not acomplished without the
power of Spirit of God (Zech 4.6-9).