Sir – If someone gets a fantastic bargain, has a wonderful holiday or watches an amazing film, play or whatever, it’s natural to want to tell others and try to persuade them to have the same experience.


So it’s hardly surprising that, when a person has the revolutionising and life-enhancing experience of developing a relationship with the living God, they will long for others to share their sense of joy and fulfilment.
Natural, too, that they cannot understand how anyone might doubt there could be such a Being and such a relationship.


So I hope you non-believers can understand believers’ enthusiasm for wanting to proclaim what we feel should be obvious, and forgive those who may do so perhaps a little too vociferously, as appears to have been the case in these pages.


It’s most unlikely that a non-believer will be won over simply by arguments, but personal example may carry a lot of weight. Lee Strobel, a hard-hitting Chicago Tribune crime reporter, once an ardent atheist, was not convinced by any of the standard arguments for the existence of God.
But when his wife became a Christian, he was so amazed by the change that he saw in her that he turned his court-honed analytical skills to examining the spheres of cosmology, mathematics, physics and other sciences, as well as philosophy and the Bible.
He concluded that there is a God, who is the creator, designer and sustainer of the universe, that the Bible (often using poetic and figurative expressions) is true, and that Jesus was exactly who and what the Bible says he is. His books, The Case for a Creator, The Case for the Real Jesus, etc, provide excellent material for the open-minded enquirer, as may the Alpha Course, which many churches run.
Graham Taylor, Witney