{"id":36781,"date":"2013-01-27T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=36781"},"modified":"2021-07-21T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T02:16:58","slug":"are-christians-only-allowed-to-talk-to-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-christians-only-allowed-to-talk-to-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Christians only allowed to talk to Christians?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Does the Bible say that we&#8217;re not allowed to talk to anyone who&#8217;s not a Christian? If so, what happens if a Christian does talk to someone who&#8217;s not a Christian?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m scratching my head trying to figure out where such an idea could possibly come from. It would be impossible to fulfill Christ&#8217;s command to teach if we were not allowed to talk to non-Christians. &#8220;<em>Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 28:19).<\/p>\n<p>You see the apostles talking to all sorts of non-Christians throughout the book of Acts.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Response:<\/h2>\n<p>Yeah, I was kind of thinking in the same direction. If the Lord tells us to teach others to be Christians, then wouldn&#8217;t we need to speak to them in the very beginning first?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hello, Does the Bible say that we&#8217;re not allowed to talk to anyone who&#8217;s not a Christian? If so, what happens if a Christian does talk to someone who&#8217;s not a Christian? Thanks! Answer: I&#8217;m scratching my head trying to figure out where such an idea could possibly come from. It would be impossible&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[642,253,233],"class_list":["post-36781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-christianity","tag-fellowship","tag-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36397,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-are-christians-not-allowed-to-drink\/","url_meta":{"origin":36781,"position":0},"title":"What are Christians not allowed to drink?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Are Christians allowed to drink coffee? 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