How would you articulate the core message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to somebody who's unfamiliar with the religion or a nonbeliever?

Yeah, so we get the opportunity to kind of explain that a lot.

And obviously there's cultural understanding and connotations to the gospel or who Jesus is.

And the church has a long track record of not always promoting Christ in the most authentic way according to Scripture.

So when we encounter people that maybe are unfamiliar with Christ or maybe they have misperceptions of what that means, What we like to share with them foremost is that they're loved by Jesus right where they're at.

They're loved by Christ.

And we find that that's probably one of the hardest things to get people to understand because how could God love them? If he's even real, how could he love them when so many people struggle to love themselves? So letting them know that they are loved right where they're at, but then giving them the hope and the encouragement that the love is so great that it meets you where you're at, but it doesn't leave you there.

Well, you share a successful evangelism story of bringing somebody who you feel was lost or they feel was lost to Christ.