Breakfast with Pops!

Saturday I had breakfast with my dad! It was really fun just talking to him about school and everything. We talked about how school was and my classes and cotillion and getting a dress and everything and then we also talked about his work and like this cigar store he's going to be putting in the club and it was really cool hearing an update about everything he was going to be doing! We also talked about college and I love talking about college :) the future is probably one of my favorite topics!! :) Anyways we just kind of talked about a lot of things and then we went to the car show and looked at cars that I like for my first carr! And I'm still thinking either a mustang or a jeep.. hahaha I'm not sure why! But it was really fun talking to my dad about a lot of stuff because we just got to catch up and he takes me to school in the morning so we talk every morning but it was to go out to eat together! So I really liked this assignment and it was really fun (:

Living Missionaly

To me personally, living missionaly means giving your life to Jesus. I really think that the only way to live fully in mission is through dedication of my life. I just started reading this book "Radical" and it really made me think of something in a COMPLETELY different perspective! Most people know that in the Bible Jesus says "take up your cross and follow me" and I guess to me this was just a verse that was permanent in my brain and I thought I knew what it meant but really didn't. Jesus saying this is like if some guy came to me and said "hey Courtney.. take up your electrical chair and follow me" well now that doesn't sound to pleasant at all!! "Pick up an instrument of torture and follow me"...  I'm really starting to notice that when Jesus was on earth He didn't come and "fluff" Christianity to make it appeal to people.. He didn't make you "feel good" so you would follow Him. He told people to sell all of their possessions to leave their families to take up their cross. Jesus called for people to abandon themselves. To turn away from whats comfortable and what feels good and to take a journey into faith in Him that He will provide. To maybe go through times when we are hungry or homeless or lonely, but to trust in Him through those times. To be a Christian is to be on mission. Our mission is clear even if our vocation is not. I think that I really need to ABANDON myself. I need to rid myself of this world no matter how hard that is. I think it'll be a really, really tough road, but God calls us too and I want to follow after Him whole heartedly.

I'm not completely living a missional life. I'll be the first to admit - sometimes I think I do a horrible job at living a missional life. I strive to be a girl that has Jesus shining through her. I remember in elementary school at T Bar M sports camp I strived to be what they called a WOG (Woman of God) and ever since then I've wanted to be a "WOG". I have this desire to be an example to my friends and a mentor to younger girls. More than anything I want to be the mentor I never had. I think that God has blessed me with a moldable heart and I want to be obedient with what He calls me to do. I think that in some ways I am living a life of mission but in someways I'm not at all. I love giving advice and I think that that is a way I am living missionaly. My friends can all trust me and I always turn back to the Bible with them and pray with them when they need me or my help. One of my favorite quotes is "Preach the gospel always, when necessary use words." I just love that. I think that the way I do everything should show that I'm a Christian. I totally agree with Coach Rodden in that my facebook, my twitter, the way I talk to people, the music I listen to, the words I use, the movies I watch, the parties I go to, and my whole life should look DIFFERENT than a non-Christians life. I don't want to be lukewarm. I don't want to live a normal Christian life.. I think that Jesus calls us to be RADICAL. and in order to be radical I need to abandon myself. I want to spend my summer going to Christian Camps, doing community service, going on mission trips around the world, having Bible study!! Not going to parties, watching tv, going shopping all the time and wasting my life away. My favorite song by Lecrae says, "I only got one life to live and I'ma live it, filled with the spirit of God theres no limit so I dream. I wanna be used by Christ in some way, maybe I can change a life some day, so I dream. Dream big, one life, one Lord one Christ, one Summer it may not be the last one.. but whatchya gonna do to make it better than the last one? I used to think that I was nothing in the Lords eyes - I aint know enough to be one of the Lords guys - knew a little Bible, knew a couple verses, never made disciples, I was so observant... They say the young will see the visions, but man I'm feeling blind... but then I heard of David takin down Goliath, small thing to a giant but he still tried it - what if I can fight it? what if I can find it? the heart to trust in God and dream of strength that He provided. Watchya dreamin about? Dream bigger you don't know what God could bring about. Dream of being the player that leads the team to Christ, dream of being the doctor who leads a team to life, dream of muslim nations, turn to worship Jesus, dream of shattered families - stop pick up the pieces, Dream of God using you up in the class halls and share the truth of Christ before they see the last fall." I posted like the majority of the lyrics to this song because I just truly LOVE this song. I want to make every year, every summer, every week, and every day "better than the last one". I want to dream BIG. All I have to do is dream that God can use me!! I want to ABANDON my life so that God can use me in big ways!! Even if in my whole life I only lead one person to Christ... God could use that one person to bring 400 people to Him! He works in such cool ways and if I have to dedicate myself and live missionaly my whole life to bring that one person to Christ... then that is awesome and I want to start now!!

As I've been saying a change in my life I need to make to live more missionaly is I need to work on giving myself ALL to Jesus. To "Die" to myself. I need to realize that I no longer have the right to focus on myself anymore. If I want others to follow God, I need to follow God. If I want others to obey Jesus' teachings, I need to obey Jesus' teachings. If I want people to be excited about godly things, I need to be excited. I need to respect people. I cant just give up because I don't feel like it anymore. I need to understand that my tone of voice and the words I use are soo important to the person listening to whatever it is I have to say and I need to be careful. There are people who just want someone genuine to look up to. If Jesus says we need to be careful about lust in our lives, we need to be careful! It's hard to follow someone who talks a good talk, but when it comes down to the bottom line, they live 180 degrees differently from the way they talk. This is the problem with Christianity, we have soo many hypocrites and it turns people away.  I really want to make disciples. (Matthew 28). God has a plan and he allows us to be an important part of this relationship. Nobody is going to come up and asked to be discipled - we are insecure people, and don't want people tohave the opportunity to reject us on so many levels. I don't know many people that would say, "Hey, would you mind meeting me every other week after school? I'd like to know more about Jesus." It just doesn't happen like that. Jesus didn't say "sit around and wait" He said GO! And going means I need to take a proactive step in identifying and initiating friendship with someone who could be a future disciple.

Evangelism

Today in class we read "The New Macedonia: A revolutionary New Era in Mission begins" by Ralph D. Winter. Honestly, I don't enjoy reading long articles. Books? love them! articles? put me to sleep. I already have the attention span of a five year old and in the middle of the day it kind of just gets worse.. So I really wasn't a fan of this article... maybe its just because a much older man wrote it and it felt kind of monotone.. I don't know. Haha so anywaysss...

E1 Evangelism: where a person communicates to his own people - obviously the most potent kind of evangelism. NEAR

E2 Evangelism: begins where the people you have reached are of sufficiently different backgrounds from those of people in existing churches that they need to form their own kind. Involves crossing the frontier between the church and the world and involves crossing the frontier constituted by significant differences of language and culture. CLOSE

E3 Evangelism: greater cultural distance. necessary in the 3rd sphere of Jesus' statement 'to the uttermost part of the earth'. work talk and think in languages and cultures utterly different than those native to the evangelist. most urgent. FAR

Every tribe and tongue has a strong, powerfully evangelizing church in it, and thus an E-1 witness within it, E-2 and E-3 efforts coming from outside are still essential and highly urgent.

"Christian unity cannot be healthy if it infringes upon Christian liberty" do I agree? I don't know. This blog is supposed to be where I can be honest and honestly I don't even know what this means. I've looked at this quote for like five minutes and still don't understand. I'm really good at like Bible and Science and Math but when it comes to English I'm a terrible reader and writer. This quote just makes no sense in my head. This article was painful to read. I am one of the younger people in this class but it seems like everyone reads through these long wordy articles with a breeze. But seriously even if I wanted to read this article and fully understand it I don't know if I could. I don't like these articles because I can't understand them. I get the main point which is good but the actually articles just make my head feel like its about to explode... soo I can't really answer this question from the article because I don't even get it! So I would love to answer this for you.. but I can't. This articles main points were good I just don't really like reading these articles, they are too hard and sort of boring.. sorry this blog kinda sucked.

Missions

In class we read an article called "World Mission Survey" by Winter and Fraser. Its a really interesting article about what is happening missionaly throughout the world. I think that there are opportunities everywhere to be a missionary. I think you can be a missionary at home,  but I also know that Matthew 28:19 calls us to GO and make disciples of all the nations. I think the obstacles in the way of missions advancement are that we are comfortable. It's really easy to say that God is calling you to the very place you want to be. But maybe the place God is calling you is not the place you're currently at. Its easy to convince ourselves that our comfort is confirmation to our conquest, to where we should be. But maybe discomfort that leads us to dependence on God should be our direction. I think not GOING because we are to secure, independent, and comfortable where we are at is a major obstacle. For me, after reading this article I kind of got excited on the inside. This world needs missionaries. Yes we have reached a lot of people like the article said - and thats awesome! but there is so much more of the world that we need to get too! Like I said in my blog about dating, marriage, etc. I really want to go to Kanakuk Link Year, however they are only taking 44 students (22 girls and 22 boys) making it extremely difficult to get in. So I've been looking for alternative ideas and found Kivu Gap Year. I've become really, really interested in it. While Link Year is still first on my heart Kivu Gap Year seems awesome! Its kind of the same and Link Year but focused more on missionary work. Kivu goes to South America for ten days, East Africa for 2 months, and South East Asia for 2 months. It seems REALLY awesome. To experience missionary work for a little over 4 months. Anyways I really, really feel like God has called me to go! If I could afford it, my whole entire summer would be full of mission trips!! I'm going to go on a mission trip to Florida, which I'm excited about... but I SO MUCH want to get out of the country!! I want to go on a mission trip to Africa or Haiti or just somewhere where they need missionaries.. I'm not really sure what else I can write about for missions because I'm pretty sure I have several other blogs talking about missions. But anyways the article had some really cool statistics! Sorry for the rambling blog..

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Today I'm reflecting on "the good, the bad, and the ugly" at HCHS. 

POSITIVES.

1. Houston Christian is a private school where we have the freedom to freely proclaim and express our love for God!
2. There are awesome programs that I think are really cool such as the Leadership program, classes such as Practical Missions and Discipleship, and the Colorado trip.
3. The athletics have been fantastic in previous years!! It seems as if there has been a slight decline in the past couple years, but Houston Christian has overall been really good at sports!
4. Block Schedule.. its soo helpful and I like having two days to do my homework!!
5. Traveling opportunities! I love that students have the opportunity to go on trips like to Israel, Puerto Rico, China, Africa, and so on. I think that is so cool and very special!! 
6. Bible classes at HCHS are really awesome! 
7. The teachers overall are all really great! They all will set aside time to help you if you need assistance and most of them know how to teach things several ways so that all the students will understand. I think that most of the staff at HCHS is really great. 
8. My favorite thing is how diverse the students are! We are all so different and it makes it so much fun to get to know everybody. However, while we are all unique we share the same love for the Lord and that is what makes Houston Christian so special.

NEGATIVES

1. The people. I hate how the people at Houston Christian can be so two faced and so hypocritical. it breaks my heart. Being a victim of it, I know how it feels. Seeing it done to other people hurts. I also hate that people are so judgmental. I hate that girls are judging each other based off of what they don't know, or that they will be rude to each other just because they are jealous. There is so much stuff going on in our school that is so WORLDLY and it just makes me sick. But I need to say that not everyone is like this!! Most people at HCHS are really good kids!!

I think thats the only negative thing I can think of!  I really do love Houston Christian and feel extremely blessed to be able to attend this school!! 

So thats my little tid bit for the day!! Oh I forgot to add on... I felt like it was time for my blog to have a face lift :). I think it looks much more welcoming and girly now and I love it!! :) 

Love, Dating, Marriage, and everything in between!

It absolutely breaks my heart the amount of divorce our world and culture has. I have a lot of thoughts on a lot of different things so I'm going to be rambling to the MAX in this blog but stick with me!! Hopefully you have some thought you agree with! :) Okay well first off here are my views about dating someone who is not a Christian. One of my favorite analogies that my mentor Adam told me was that if you run towards the cross and keep going towards the cross God will place someone in your life that is running towards the cross at the same speed and right next to you and then you can hold hands and run together towards the cross! I know its super cheesy but I love it!! I believe that if they don't love their master they won't be able to love you.

Another thing I believe is that LUST is a feeling, LOVE is a commitment. I think they get sooo mixed up in our world!! I think that hollywood is telling us that love is a feeling! Hollywood couples divorce because the "love feeling disappears!" Whenever those butterfly feelings disappear they decide to get divorced! and they are rubbing off on us!! The divorce rate of Christians is just as high as the secular world.. how sad is that?? we are supposed to  be examples to the rest of the world! I seriously think that our nation is plagued with divorce. We are basing our love off of Hollywood, off of songs and movies. When you get married that butterfly feeling isn't going to always be there, but from what I've heard from wise counselors I turn to - they love their spouses more and more EVERY DAY, because they have a commitment to love them. A lot of people disagree with me about love, but personally I've decided not to tell a boy I love them in an intimate way until he is down on one knee. What if Christ only felt lust for us? do you think he felt like hiking up Calvary, being spit on, mocked, and accused. But why did He do it? He did it because He made a commitment to us. Proverbs 4:23 - above all else guard your heart, for it is the WELLSPRING of life. guard your heart!! don't give it away!! 

The more focus we become on chasing a relationship, the less focused we become on chasing Christ. Relationships are meant to INCREASE your relationship with the Lord, not decrease. If you are in a relationship that's hindering your relationship with the Lord, break up with them! God wants you WHOLLY His - when your wholly His God will give you someone amazing!!  One of my favorite quotes is if you dance with the Lord, He'll let the right guy cut in! DANCE with the Lord!! Here is for the girls-- As women, we are naturally drawn to give our hearts over to man quickly and easily. It is our curse. "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” genesis 3. Our hearts want to be loved with physical, immediate love.  loving a God that is not tangible and for the most part not even audible is not an easy thing to do, especially when we are asked to be fully satisfied and wanting nothing else with an invisible God.  You might be saying, Great... now what...

But it is just like God to have everything under control and according to his purpose.  He purposefully designed it this way so that we couldn't rely on ourselves to love him. WHAT A CONCEPT! :)It is easy to look at a boy we like and say, yep I like him. you cant give any credit to the boy, he didn't do anything... for some reason our self is just attracted to his self.  But God compels our hearts and then requires it so we invite all of Him in (Holy Spirit for strength, Jesus Christ for forgiveness, and God the father for power and confidence) and provides the strength and reliance we need to love him that way he deserves to be loved. It is so easy to let my mind slip off God and onto someone else. when you are not in a relationship, then we need to be extra careful that we dont let out minds wander.  

Recently I thought this guy was going to pursue me and I really liked him. but then he stopped. I was fine and prayed a lot about it to guard my heart and focus on Jesus.  But I saw him again recently and this time I wasnt in constant prayer and I would catch myself thinking things were going to work out when he gave me absolutely no indication that he was even remotely interested.  That is the danger. We day dream and let our minds wander out of reality and into our own fantasy world. It is in God's character to want us to live in the present. to be sharp and aware (which is why he asks us not to be drunk, or worry, or be anxious..) so I take that and feel as it would be in God's character to ask us not to fixate on boys and create our own fantasy land (no matter how small and innocent it is)  .. anyway, he recently got a girlfriend, and surprisingly I was so relieved. I knew I was sinning by giving my heart to this boy when he had no intention of ever pursing it. so when I found out he was dating someone else it shattered my little hopes that he would still like me and freed me to see my sin and repent before the Lord. I had to humble myself before Jesus and acknowledge that I was thinking of someone else before him. I had to acknowledge that I was cheating on the Lord for I was giving myself over (even in the slightest most innocent way) before I was married.  

Now I dont want to be extreme with the purpose of setting a whole set of rules. I do not believe everyone has to take the same exact steps to guard their heart. and I do not agree with women telling other women they are not allowed to kiss before marriage etc.  but i do believe that you must be honest with your heart and see where you are struggling and where you stumble the most and step one repent. step two ask fall back head over heels in love with Jesus. step three ask for strength to truly be satisfied with whatever plan he has for you.

Ask jesus for a heart that would be satisfied if a boy is in your future and also a heart that would be satisfied if he is not.  ask for a heart that will love Jesus no matter the circumstances that lay ahead. We could love, we may never. We could marry this person, we could marry another. we may be married and have our spouse taken from us.  we could marry and not be loved the way we should. I pray with my whole heart that you find someone who loves you because he loves God more. I pray you find someone who attempts to treat you the way Jesus treats you and attempts to love you like Jesus loves the church. I pray all these things but I pray more that you will love back BECAUSE and only because Jesus first loved you and you first loved Jesus.  

In order to get over a boy, give your heart to jesus.  We must do this each and every day.  Give you heart soul and mind over to our loving God because he will transform your heart and will transform your desires to the point that you will look at a boy and say, "I am a daughter of the king... I may be with you I may not but I will stand unwavering in the mean time. I am already in love, you (if you are lucky) are just supplementary. " now dont say that in a spiteful way.  say it in a loving, genuine way speaking truth over yourself!

Okay moving on! here is some more of my rambling! I think we often drown out God's voice with the voice of those we are infatuated with. I think that when a girl is with a boy cuddling on the couch watching a movie, and he wants to do something.. we will drown out Gods voice to the voice of the boy saying its okay! Another thing I think is a major deal is praying with the opposite sex before your married - don't do it!! While sex is the most intimate thing you can do with someone physically, prayer is the most intimate thing you can do with someone spiritually and emotionally. I'm not saying praying with a group of people that has the opposite sex involved is bad!! I'm saying don't pray with the person you are dating. It leaves girls emotionally unguarded, and boys can manipulate girls through it unknowingly. So often I hear of stories of girls saying "well I did this with him because I was afraid he would leave me" or "I decided to date him because he has waited like six months!!" Girls! Jacob waited FOURTEEN years!!! Guys don't date a girl because she has been waiting for a couple months and girls don't give into boys because you are afraid they won't wait. If Jacob waited, so can they!

Something else to keep in mind is that the Bible says above ALL things the heart is deceitful... take that in. above all things MY heart is deceitful. Our hearts will make us want things that we shouldn't wnat! It takes courage and honesty to truly invite God to examine your heart but I encourage you to soo much!  Guard your heart in all areas, not just when you are in a relationship by not using the words "I love you".  You can start to guard your heart now, even from getting too "emotionally attached" to your boyfriends(girlfriends), crushes, or even guy(girl) friends.  It is important as humans to be cautious with our hearts because even crushes can start to consume our minds and take over our day dream life, and ultimately take away from our walk with the Lord and our time spent with him.  Now it is not bad to crush.. but it is dangerous to dwell on crushes, to be "boy crazy" in a sense.

As a children of God we need to make sure that we are independently in love with Jesus and our strength comes from the Lord and not our community, our friends, or boys.  To help with that we need to truly check our heart and see if our satisfaction or value or confidence or mood come from whether we are getting attention or not.  If we are truly satisfied in the Lord and putting our whole value and confidence in him then we can not "chase after boys" and be able to patiently and contently wait as the Lord's plans unfold and wait for a man to pursue us.. not having to flirt or strategically put ourselves in position to get noticed.  I also want to add though that this is very hard! and I am soo not perfect at it. and even as much as I want to say I find my whole 100% value in HIM, in all honesty I don't all the time :(


But theoretically, if we can, then how much peace will we be able to have in not chasing after boys, knowing and understanding that the Lord has someone picked out just for you and he will notice you as a diamond in the rough and he will love you for the Godly woman you are, not as an attention seeker.. I love that picture! and it frees us women up to be 100% focused on him, because the men do all the work! and it frees us up to have unity with our sisters because we are not competing for attention! and it frees us up to love our sisters as more precious than ourselves because we are secure in the Lord and dont need worldly praise! but the ONLY ONLY ONLY way our sinful hearts can reach that state is truly through prayer and lots and lots of abiding in the Lord and spending time with him!

Something that I am SO passionate about is this think called link year..  I am praying day by day that I get in because I just feel soo called to do it! its like a gap year and its pretty much the coolest thing ever.. check it out! www.kanakuklinkyear.com

they only are taking about 22 girls and 22 boys, because they want a tight community and I pray that God chooses me to be one of those 22 girls! Anyways I'm sharing this because they have some really strict rules but some really awesome rules (to me anyways) I think that after living with these rules for a year it will teach me discipline for when I go off to college. Anyways some of the rules are 

• Curfew is 11p.m. on weeknights and 12:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Students must be in dorms at these times.
• No one is allowed to tour the dorms of the opposite gender at any time other than arrival and departure day.
• Any substance such as alcohol, drugs, cigarettes or anything that alters your ability to control your body is strictly prohibited. This includes abuse of any prescribed medications or over the counter drugs.
• No sexual contact of any kind during the course of the entire year, on or off campus.
• To protect the commitment to purity and renewing the mind, students choose to set aside secular television and secular music, as well as refrain from watching rated R movies.

Will link-year students be allowed to enter into dating relationships?

Students will not be penalized for dating while at the Link Year. We would prefer our students to participate in-group dating and hanging out in groups rather than one on one situations where temptation may occur. However, we will not prohibit dating. We think this is an opportune environment where young men and women can learn to accurately and Biblically pursue relationships with integrity. Rules at the Kanakuk Link Year are guidelines set up to help students focus completely on God and avoid distractions in their pursuit of growth.


how cool is that?? like guys cant come into girls dorm rooms and vice-versa. you cant drink, watch bad tv shows, listen to bad music, or watch bad movies. you have a curfew. Like most these things would drive people crazy!! but they make me SOO much more excited and wanting to get in!! I think that these rules for 8 months will change my life! I think they will give me a break from this world. They will teach me how to be in this world not of this world. I know this is pretty random I just want to go there soo bad and so I wanted to share the rules about relationships!  Anyways if anybody wants to know more about it let me know!! I LOVE talking about it!! Oh my word I have rambled so much :) I hope I've done this blog how I was supposed to Coach Rodden.. I tried :)


ps.. if you want to know my view on purity check out my blog from September called "Gods Purpose- WORTH READING!"

Your love is extravagant, your friendship, it is intimate. I feel I'm moving to the rhythm of your grace. Your fragrance is intoxicating in a secret place, cause your love is extravagant. <3

Evangelism

Today in class we talked about the decline of teenagers basically being active or doing something about their faith in Christ. This lead to the question of are we being active and not only attending sunday school and church but also living out what we say we are. Are we just talking the talk? or are we walking the walk? but the main question of all was have I shared my faith in the hope of getting someone to come to Christ in the last twelve months? and my answer is yes. For the majority of me sharing Christ its usually not for someone to come to Christ, but me trying to help them come back to Christ or to fall in love with Him more. I have four beautiful friends who in the past five months I have seen walk closer to God then I ever saw them do before. What a blessing that is for me. We have become accountability partners and encourage one another and they teach me so much and I hope I do the same for them. They are my angels and I pray I am theres. Its so crazy to think that if God hadn't had me reach out to them and they hadn't accepted me to come in and talk about God openly, we wouldn't be the five best friends that we are now. It was TOTALLY a God thing to let us come so close together and for Him to create such a bond as sisters of Christ. I'm also becoming closer with other people and desperately trying to help them. I have this one sweet friend who is so lost, and I know how much she wants God and wants to be with Him. But her parents who ignore her and a boy that repeatedly uses her are holding her back and it just breaks my heart. I think one of the best ways to spread the Word of God is through relationships. When you create that relationship with someone its so much easier for them to trust you and become vulnerable around you. But besides this, I think the question is mainly asking about if I reach out to people who don't know Jesus or don't want to know Jesus. Well in the last 12 months I have basically been working only on one person. I go to a Christian school, grew up in a Christian home, go to church, and go to camp. All together, all my friends are Christians. Do they all live like Christians? No, but they all believe in Jesus Christ. The one person that I know that is not a Christian is my aunt Mishta. Mishta married my mom's step-brother Steve. She is Hindu which has such a complex amount of beliefs that it just leaves me dumbfounded. I pray for her constantly and have tried to talk to her about Jesus, and she will listen, but she rejects it every single time and it breaks my heart. I talked to Greg Speck about it and he said that Hindus are very very "stuck" in their religion and don't like when people question or challenge it and he advised me that the best thing I can do is to pray. So I have been praying for God to soften Mishta's heart. She just had two beautiful babies Somya (which means gentle) and Saaya. They are beautiful little premies and I pray for them too. I pray that God will work his ways and some how show them Jesus. Even if its when they are older, I just pray that they have the chance to meet Jesus. In telling someone about Christ I think you definitely dont just want to be like "I believe in Jesus and he died for you" because hellooo, they are an atheist or have other beliefs so of corse they wouldn't believe that, that's like someone coming up to me and saying Courtney you should be buddhist because I believe in Buddah... which is really dumb because of course I wouldn't believe in Buddah. So I kind of really love this topic, and I may not be too good at what my tactic is and im about to share with you information and you may not like ANY of it :) which is totally cool. haha this would just be my approach :) 

okay my first thing to say is DONT rush. Always take your time talking to them and dont get discouraged or frustrated, God put this person in your life because He has a plan and He is going to work it through you :) dont give up, you may not see results for even years, but dont worry!

Alright so if they said "I dont believe in God" then honestly I would ask them a question right back! I would say "What god or gods don't you believe in?" Now this is most likely going to throw them of BIG time, and they will probably answer with a "You know! God!" or "The only God..?" now id say "Actually I don't know, because there are alot of gods I don't believe in either, so you and I might have something in common by not believing in god." then they will probably say "I dont believe in the God (notice capital g) that created the universe." questions are some of the best things to ask! it will keep it going and make them really think.. you can then ask them "Who is this God in your mind that created the universe?" the response will probably be "the God of the Bible" Now you can explain to them how you dont believe in the god of Hindu's, Mormon's, and several other false religions. You can also tell them You do believe in the God of the universe, not only because of what the Bible says about Him, but that the world that surrounds you supports His work in every way. Now I'm obviously not promising in ANY way that that would convert them from atheism or another religion but I guarantee it grabbed their attention, You asked questions, instead of choking what you believe down their throats.

Heres another thing you can do. Take a watch. ask him/her (im going to call them a him to make it easier on me :) lol) so ask him who made the watch, which the answer is a watchmaker, so you can then ask him that if he sat down at a table with each separate part of a watch, the battery and all, if he could put together the watch, the answer should be no, and you can conclude with agreeing that the watch had an intelligent watchmaker that put together this design. Now ask him if it is possible, if you take every single piece of the watch, and put it in a box, and shake it (or not shake it at all) , that over millions of years the watch would come together, hopefully their answer should be no. or else they are just stupid, haha just kidding :) but then you can tie it together with creation and how the universe needs an intelligent designer aka God. and it didnt just come together.

Here is another way to show someone through the Bible:

LEADING A NON BELIEVER TO CHRIST!!
Step 1:
The Bridge
God is HOLY

Share with them (also let them know that even if they dont believe in the Bible, have them look at it how a christian would) Revelation 4:8(b)- Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the almighty who was and who is and who is to come. 
Then ask them if you repeat something if it is emphasis? tell them an example like "Okay if i told you (thier name) listen listen listen! i obviously want you to do what?" they will answer listen... so tell them how God is SOO holy!
and for that one draw number one (you can draw this on anything! a napkin a paper a board! whatever! :) 

Step 2:
man is SINFUL
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." pretty self explanatory

Step 3:
THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH
"For the wages of sin is death" Romans 6:23(a)
easy to explain again

Step 4:
Christ is the bridge
"But God demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8
WOOOHHHH CHRIST IS THE BRIDGEE!!! hahahah :) 

Step 5:
We are saved by GRACE ALONE.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so than no one can boast" Ephesians 2:8-9
Ask them what grace is: the answer is Something we dont deserve... (good things we do, no matter how hard we try by our good works, can never get us over to the other side.)

6. To receive Jesus is to become a child of God.
"Yet to all who recieved Him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" John 1:12
you can reword this to fit thier name (OH A GOOD THING TO DO IS TO GIVE THEM YOUR BIBLE AND HAVE THEM READ THE VERSES OUT OF THE BIBLE TO YOU!) anyways if his name was say jake,, you could say "to Jake, who recieves Jesus, Jake, who believes in God, gets the right to become a child of God."

After you do that, I don't thin you can push them any harder. but what I would do is just tell that person "Its okay if you don't believe, its okay, but if you ever have a question, or decide to make the decision to accept the King of kings into your heart, will you just give me a call?" 

I cant promise you, but most of the time, through time, at some point youll get a call :)

now i didnt proofread this message so its probably all giberish :) but I think overall this answered the question of whether or not I have told someone else about Christ in the last 12 months! :)

Baby Somya and Saaya

In my prayers forever <3

"And now, Lord, listen to their threats. Lord, help us, your servants, to speak your word without fear

Acts 4:29