Be Equipped, therefore, with some Basic Apologetics

The reader is encouraged to please stop here and read 2nd Peter 3:14-18, Jude 2:22-23 before continuing. Using 'pat answers', packaged platitudes or trite cliches are poor witnessing tools against any non-Christian, especially a cultist! Realize ahead of time that when it comes to apologetics (contending for the Christian faith), it will be slow going with them because most people are 'experientially oriented' and NOT 'intellectually or rationally oriented'. So you must try to communicate knowledge lovingly and patiently. Remember that reason can never replace what reason didn't put there! All the good reasoning in the world will do no good against an emotional orientation! Most cultists believe as they do because they have been 'programmed' to believe as they do. They have NEVER been encouraged to reason it out for themselves, and in fact, are discouraged, often to the point of threat, from using their own reasoning powers.