P2P Dealing with tricky Subjects and Questions

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P2P Dealing with tricky Subjects and Questions
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What is a tricky or difficult question ?
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Class Input during P2P session
Class input during the P2P session

• No connection to your beliefs - never heard the
  question or of the issue in question before.
• Antagonistic people who has no respect for the
  Bible and give it no authority
• People quoting personal experiences as the basis
  for their beliefs.
• People who are pedantic - want to argue about
  lesser important detail that does not really
  prove/disprove the real important issue(s)

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Listed Prior to talk

• You don't know answer at all
• You don't know how to explain even though you
  know the answer
• Explanation needs to be elaborate as a foundation
  has to be laid.
• Trick question
• Answer might be hard for them to accept
• Explanation to connected with other difficult to
  accept doctrines
• Question asked with limited detail/info or
  reference referred to but not given.
• Difficult to check whether question is loaded or
  flawed from the start.

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Not expected to know it all. So if you don't
.....

• Acknowledge it but then go into Bible to try and
  find answer from there together with student "on
  the fly"
• Verse that states that God will help us to
  remember etc
• matt 1019,20
• Best way to learn is to teach
• Learn/Discover on the fly
• Spread the word - do not HAVE to convert anyone
• Happy to share - no worries re those that don't
  want to hear
• Expect apathy/opposition/antagonism/hostility/peop
  le who "know it all" etc

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Not expected to know it all. So if you don't
..... (2)

• Try and find a subtopic related to the question
  asked that you can use to lay good foundation for
  later
• E.g. - Demons Rather deal with Angels can't sin
• Sometimes more beneficial to state that other
  foundation work more important in order to
  understand the question asked and deal with
  foundation work first.

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The attitude / kind of person on the other side ?
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Class Input during P2P session
Class input during the P2P session

• apathetic
• abusive
• nasty
• philosophical
• bitter / disillusioned
• receptive
• shy
• lonely

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Listed prior to talk

• Easy
• Willing to learn
• Gained their trust
• Earnestly searching
• Medium
• Slightly reserved
• "Sussing" you out
• Fair knowledge but a mix of stuff heard
• Difficult
• Argumentative
• Show off
• Know it all
• Crusade

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Ask their name and use it!

• Reduces "hostile" interaction/environment
• Makes it more personal

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Give them the broad frame work - leave detail for
later

• Let them know there is much more to be
  investigated
• Wet their appetite by outlining all issues
  involved
• Lot of "broad framework" info increases curiosity
• Leave them knowing there is more and wanting more
• Helps to have them came back for more and
  increase opportunities for interaction and
  building relationships

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Worth while remembering

• Sometimes "debating" with a difficult person is
  more for the benefit of people standing by and
  listening.
• Use the difficult person as a "spring board" to
  get others interested/"hooked"
• There is a precedent for sometimes cutting
  "preaching" short when you judge it a case of
  casting your pearls before swine.