I was doing some research for a sermon recently and happened upon a web site entitled ExChristian.net.  Of particular interest was an article called "House Built on a Weak Foundation".  Since I was planning to speak on this issue, as Jesus discussed at the end of Matthew 7, I read the whole article (found here at http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2006/07/house-built-on-weak-foundation.html). My first reaction was to go into defensive mode; pointing out the flaws in this person's arguments.  Well, if I had the chance, I could argue them back into a corner, I thought.  But the more I thought about it, the more difficult I realized it would be.  How do you argue against someone who denies the existence of God?  I can't paint a picture for them because they cannot see.  I can't tell them testimonies for they cannot hear.  At what point do I just shake the dust from my feet and move on to the next person?  The question is quite relevant because just down the street from the church is a confessed athiest who says that he discovered God does not exist.  I've talked (not argued because I want my speech seasoned with wisdom) with this man many times, but he still refuses to believe.  I'm the one delusional, he says.  As I stand and debate this person, he begs me to prove God exists.  And when I do, he is not convinced.  Are my arguments that poor?  Am I really that incompetent?  If I could speak with the wisdom of C. S. Lewis, would he believe?  Somehow I don't think so.  Even if Jesus were standing before him, I believe he would respond like so many did while Jesus walked his earth.  So I pray.  I pray that this man's mind would be cleared of the weeds that entangle; that Satan would be removed so he could both see and hear.  But I no longer argue.  That's getting me no where.  I no longer engage this man in a debate about Jesus and God.  But I do pray and I do live; I live the truth in hopes that one day this man might be able to see what’s been right before him all along.