Sharing the gospel with resistant loved ones: grace, strategy, and the book Tactics

Mike identifies two reasons family members resist: (1) an underlying spiritual anxiety toward God that gets directed at the Christian as proxy; (2) memories of past abrasiveness by the believer. He advises against looking for "trigger moments" to insert truth; instead, he counsels strategic, tactful, relationship-first engagement. He strongly recommends the book Tactics by Greg Koukl for concrete conversational strategies. The goal is to make it impossible for the listener to dismiss the message by fixating on the messenger's attitude.