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Interesting scenario, Tim. But to the question directly, I can communicate the gospel rapidly in a couple breaths but I would much rather prefer to draw it out and be a little more precise. And it depends on who I am talking to also. I really don't know much about Hare Krishna so I wouldn't know what details I would have to expound on. If talking to a Muslim, the issues of God's holiness and man's wickedness are already understood to a degree and I could focus on man's inability to be righteous enough for heaven on his own; we cannot do enough good works to save our souls. God requires perfection and none but Christ was perfect. Thus, we must have the perfection of Christ who willingly bore the sins of God's children when we died as a sacrifice on the cross. The children of God are those who have faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and have repented of their sin, etc. However, groups like Scientologists don't have much that I could use to help express the gospel effectively as far as I know. Some folks are just so far "out there" that every point will have to be expressed and perhaps explained if necessary. It is far easier to say that "God is holy" to a Muslim than to a Universalist.
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