Here is my response: A good question with perhaps many answers. Here is the one I try to practise. I think the first step in, "How do you get everyone on board?" Is to realize that you are not ever going to achieve that! It will never happen that you will get everyone together at the one time and spot. Forgetting those who just don’t want to come anyhow, there will always be some legitimate reasons, such as work, illness, previous engagement, emergency, etc, why people can’t legitimately come, no matter how much or little they might want to come. And so one needs to realise this and not try to get all but, try to encourage those that are available and thus try that which will reach the most available people, time and event wise.
Then you need to find what will attract them. Then you need to present this in a friendly non-threatening way. Because so many Christians in the past have gone full-bore head-on like a bull at a gate, many people are scared of all Christians, even in purely social settings!
It is only when they get to experience a gentle but convinced Christian and find that they can talk to them and get reasoned responses and not the Bible rammed down their throats, that they will take the chance and ask you questions, with the real intent of truly and carefully listening to your answers. Thus any event, whether organized or just over a meal, where people can get to know one another and feel comfortable with one another is the starting point, and the finishing point is not when you start witnessing to them, but when they start questioning you! Of course all this takes time and effort and as said at the start, will not attract everyone. The thing is not to try for everyone but to work with the ones you have. Remember, “A Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush!” What say you?
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