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It's an old saying that "You can't argue with results." Using your personal
testimony could make a bigger impact than anything else. Before I was
saved, I was an incredibly wicked person. But today I am NOTHING like I
was then, because "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature" (2

Corinthians 5:17) and only an omnipotent God could change me as much as
Jesus Christ changed me. (Many believers have that testimony.) All the
mind-altering drugs and psychologists of my youth couldn't even come close
to such results. The more dramatic the change in you was after salvation, the
more your life story testifies to the supernatural.

One way to reach an atheist is to have him experiment. You should pray
silently that God will work a miracle on the atheist's mind and make him see

reality. If the atheist can take it seriously enough, ask him to (on the spot
preferably) pray a "test prayer" and ask God ("if there is a God") to make
Himself known to him (either now or in the near future). (This is one time
where it's okay to lead in prayer, because the prayer isn't for salvation; it's
only to open their mind to the need for salvation.) I once heard a pastor
explain how a professing atheist got saved after the pastor led him through
several prayers (with some quiet space between) in which questions were

asked to the "theoretical" God which explained the gospel to the atheist as he
was praying them. After several prayers, the Holy Spirit had brought him to
tears, and moments later, he called upon Jesus to save him.

The irony is, the intellectual arguments for Christianity actually do more for
lost or disillusioned "church members" than for atheists. (1 Corinthians 2:1-
5)