By Aaron Shafovaloff
Created July 1, 2021
Starters
- Where are you from?
- What is your faith-background?
- How long have you been LDS?
- Did you go on a mission?
- Tell me about that? Highs and lows? Memories?
Have you ever…
- Have you ever had a friend who was a born-again Christian?
- Have you ever met a Christian evangelist?
- Have you ever heard the gospel summarized by a born-again Christian?
- Have you ever heard an evangelical explanation for that before?
- Would you mind spending a few minutes explaining to me how Latter-day Saints (LDS tradition, LDS leadership, scriptures) think about that?
- Do you agree with that?
What would you say…
- What would you say are the biggest differences between Mormonism and historic/mainstream/evangelical Christianity?
- What would you say are the most important teachings of Mormonism?
- What would you say are the biggest reasons to believe in the Bible?
- What would you say are the biggest reasons to believe in the resurrection of Jesus?
Would you mind…
- Would you mind if I took a few minutes to explain that?
- Would you mind if I shared a half-dozen scriptures you on that topic?
- Would you mind if I shared some reasons
- to trust in the Bible?
- to believe in the resurrection?
Explanation
- Tell me more about that?
- How did you come to that conclusion?
- Can you tell me the story of how you came to believe in that?
Probing questions
- What do you most doubt in your religion?
- Do you struggle any of the core claims of your faith?
- What religion would you be if you weren’t a Mormon?
Have you ever…
- Have you ever visited an evangelical Christian church before?
- Have you ever attended a Christian Bible study before?
Have you heard about
- Have you heard about the local churches available to you?
Ending
- What are you going to do with this information?
- What is stopping you from trusting the Bible on this?
- What would it look like to believe this?
- What would it cost you to leave what you believe?
- Are you willing to pray right now about this?
- Can I show you what a helpful prayer might look like?
- Would you like to pray with me to this God that I speak of?
- Can we meet for breakfast to discuss this?
- Would you like to have dinner with my family?
- Can I pray for you?
- Can I get your contact info?
- Would you like to come to church with me this Sunday?