Am I a poor teacher?
Question:
Hello brother.
How are you doing? I hope you are doing well.
Brother, I feel confused and at the same time, I feel a little disappointed in myself. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing a good job when I'm teaching others.
There was a man I was teaching. No matter how many Bible verses we covered and Bible classes we had -- no matter how many times I tried to explain to him about baptism -- he just wouldn't accept the fact that a person needs to be baptized in order to be saved. He told me that he was also having some Bible classes with a Catholic priest. He told me that he didn't need me to come to visit him anymore since we never see eye-to-eye.
I just think I'm not persuasive enough. Is it my lack of knowledge? Was the priest more persuasive than me? Did I not use the Bible verse at the right time at the right moment? Was I too direct? Was it my lack of experience? Was I not prepared enough? Did I say the wrong thing?
What do you think brother? What advice can you give me?