{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Church Answers","provider_url":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com","title":"The Starting Point for Preaching Truth in an Opinion-Driven Culture | Church Answers","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ofqU54iQr8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/the-starting-point-for-preaching-truth-in-an-opinion-driven-culture\/\">The Starting Point for Preaching Truth in an Opinion-Driven Culture<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/the-starting-point-for-preaching-truth-in-an-opinion-driven-culture\/embed\/#?secret=ofqU54iQr8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Starting Point for Preaching Truth in an Opinion-Driven Culture&#8221; &#8212; Church Answers\" data-secret=\"ofqU54iQr8\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Male-neighbor-greeting-neighbor.png","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":628,"description":"Beginning is often the hardest part of doing anything. We all want to be in better shape, but we never seem to get to the gym. We want to write our novel but never write the first sentence. We want to engage our neighbors and friends with the good news of Jesus, but we can never find a good place to start the conversation. We want to preach the gospel to our lost communities, but how do we start? What\u2019s our opening line? It\u2019s no secret. A lot of us are struggling with how to reach our lost friends in our communities and neighborhoods. There are many reasons for our anxieties. Perhaps you remember the intense evangelism efforts of the seventies and eighties. Every church had a \u201cvisitation night\u201d where members who had sat through an evangelism seminar were told to drop in on neighbors. I\u2019ve heard stories of some communities where the neighbors learned not to be home on those nights. Most of us grew tired of, if not embarrassed by, this form of hard sell evangelism. We made a promise to ourselves that we would never do that. We didn\u2019t, but instead of improving our evangelism, we stopped doing evangelism altogether."}