I had a conversation once with a guy who was seeking information about God. We had many such conversations over a long period of time. One evening, he asked me how one could know there was a God. I told him that he could look at a building, and he knew that the building had to have a "builder."

He said, what do you mean by that? I told him that he could simply do the same thing when he looked at the world and universe around him. He thought for a moment, and said, "I see your point." He told me later, after he came to know the Lord Jesus, and trust Him with his soul, that if it weren't for the conversations like that, which he'd had with myself, my wife and another gentleman, that he probably never would have gotten saved.

I have heard that same building/builder example go crashing down in rejection. I have had conversations with folks who have flatly rejected whatever I have said to them, whether it came from the pages of Scripture or not. I guess what I'm rambling about here is that I don't really know who will receive what I say to them about the Lord, and who will dismiss it. That really doesn't matter though, as long as I am lovingly talking to them, appealing to their conscience and reasoning with them from the Word, I have done my job. That doesn't mean that I don't care whether they respond positively or not to the gospel, because I really do, and I have had my heart ache for those who have rejected Him, even though some have gone out of their way to try to make me angry with them.

The point is, I don't do the converting. The Holy Spirit does the converting. I just have a responsibility to tell the truth.