The power of plausibility…
Aug 30th, 2010 by ljkim
Studies have shown that people find it harder to believe someone when they are culturally different from you… So when someone from a foreign country who speaks and looks and sounds strange to you tells you something, it’s harder to believe even if everything they’re saying is true. I bring this up because if only certain kinds (culturally) of people talk about God, it’s very easy for your unbelieving friends to feel God and the Bible is implausible… But if people like them, (ie, people like you) who believe were to go public with their faiths… it creates a plausibility structure.
Your unbelieving friends actually need to know that you love your Savior… Even if it shocks and annoys them at first, even if they become suspicious that you’re “one of them” – your daily friendship and character can prove otherwise. Right now your friends might only have a mental folder for “those people” with a subfolder “those people/Christians.” By letting them know, you help create a new mental category of “people like me who happen to believe in Jesus.”
I’m not talking about trying to convince anyone of anything, I’m simply talking about coming out of the closet when it comes to your faith…
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