The gospel is the answer to the most fundamental questions of life: Who am I?  Where did I come from?  Where did the universe come from?  Why am I here?  What is my meaning and purpose in life?  What is life about?  How do I know what’s right and what’s wrong?  Where am I going when I die? 

One of the signs that many people have questions about life percolating in their hearts and minds became evident when Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, started to set up his tent at numerous university campuses across the country.  He invited students to come up to a mic and ask whatever questions were on their minds.  Scores of the students came up, and most of the questions were directly or indirectly related to the big questions above, but until then they had had no format in which they could ask such questions.  (The same is true for apologist William Lane Craig and evangelist/apologist Cliffe Knechtle.)

Because we are finite creatures, we are not omniscient – we don’t know everything.  In fact, our knowledge about the critical areas of life is quite limited and must be learned or sought out.  Within the human heart there is an insatiable quest to find answers to these big questions. 

But finding answers gets further complicated by our own weakness and fallenness – our sin, and that of others, who don’t know the truth and so invent answers that don’t sync with the reality of living in this kind of world.  Add to that the involvement of the demonic at various levels within civilizations over millennia, and finding truthful answers to our deepest questions becomes near impossible. 

Impossible, that is, unless the truth is somehow revealed to us.  And throughout history God has used a host of ways to reveal Himself to us – His Word, a tract, a song, nature, etc.

But the primary way God reveals Himself and intends for people’s questions to be answered is through other people, transformed people, who had come to know Jesus Christ.  These are people who, in various and creative ways, feel compelled by the love of Jesus and love for their lost fellow human beings to begin a conversation which leads to a discussion answering those questions.

Because there isn’t a forum in the public square today for people to ask questions – a place where the exchange of ideas can take place and truth can interact with false ideas, millions of people across our country and the world do not ask the big questions they long for answers to.

But genuine followers of Jesus Christ have the answers to these questions: we know where the world came from, where we came from, why we’re here, and what our meaning and purpose is in life.   It’s essential for us believers, out of love for our fellow human being, to learn how start conversations – often by asking big questions, that will open people’s eyes and draw them closer to the truth in Jesus Christ.

Starting a conversation and asking questions is huge – no wonder the gospel writers record that Jesus asked 305 questions of people He had conversations with.