As a guest on Washington Watch last week, the leader of Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center, Dr. George Barna, discussed the drought of biblical worldviews in the United States.
"We've only got about 3 percent of adults in America who qualify by the standards that Jesus gives us in the scriptures as disciples," he told show host Jody Hice. 
According to Barna's research, over 72 million Americans doubt that God exists, but over 70% of this group say that they might be open to arguments for God's existence. Dr. Barna explained how to talk to people like this.
"What makes a difference is when you can develop trust in the mind and heart of the other person. The best approach to take is not to tell them that they're wrong,” he says.
"It's to continue to build that trust-based relationship with them. Let them know that you really do care, that you're really interested in what they're thinking and how they came to their conclusions."
In short, most people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
"What you do is you keep asking them well what do you think about God? How did you come to that conclusion? How certain are you of that? What kind of things have changed your mind in the past?"
Barna went on to say that while we want people to come to Christ, they have to get there on their own. But it's our duty to exemplify Christ in our actions.
"When you have these conversations, one of the elements that comes with it is the person that you're conversing with starts watching you very carefully all the times because they want to see how do these beliefs manifest themselves in your behavior? How does it change who you are and how you live? What difference does it make? Is it real or is this just an argument that you're trying to get me to buy into so that you win the argument?"
