Spiritual Questions

Often one of the hardest things to do in evangelism is to turn the conversation from non-spiritual topics to spiritual conversation. As a hospital chaplain my job was to talk to people, having these conversations for at least 8 hours a day. During that time I came up with some go-to questions that helped me turn the conversation from non-spiritual topics to spiritual matters. The following are the top 10 questions I ask people to turn the conversation to spiritual matters. Each of the questions listed below has some alterations listed so you can see ways to change them up so they don't start to become formulaic.

Additionally, you will find once you start asking these questions in your conversations they are pretty easy and natural to ask people. Most people I talked to, out of the hundreds of conversations I had, had no problem being asked these questions and talking openly about their beliefs. Further, any personal anxiety I felt, or tension in the conversation was eased by simply asking "hey can I ask you a spiritual question?" Asking for permission shows respect and concern for the individual. It shows the individual they are not just a project to you, but that you actually care about what they want, think, and feel. 

Do you have other questions you would add to the list? What do you think of these questions?

TOP 10 QUESTIONS:
1- What are your religious beliefs?
2- What do you believe about God/Jesus/Christianity?
3- Do you go to church? / whats your church like?/ have you had good
experiences with churches before?
4- Is there anything you want me to pray for you about? / Can I pray for you?
5- Can I tell you what I believe?/ Can I tell you what my faith teaches?
6- What do you believe about the Bible? / What do you think the Bible
teaches about that? / Can I tell you what the Bible says about that?
7- How do you see God at work in all of this (the situation)? / How
does your faith effect this situation? / How has God been working in
your life lately?
8- Do you have a relationship with God? Is that relationship important
to you? What does your relationship with God look like?
9- How do you think God feels about that?
10- Hey I think I have sinned against you and I want to confess that
and ask for your forgiveness, can we talk about that?