We aren't meant to save people. The best advice I ever heard, about being a Christian, is to realize, as you relate with people, that God is ministering to you and the person who you're speaking with. We are made to relate, not to save. There's incredible pressure in the Christian world to save souls, and that is not our mandate. Small wonder, when the goals are so lofty, and impossible, that people disengage early on in the process. Love this article. It's ok to doubt, it's ok to voice doubt. There is a provision of grace, and an assignment of 'right standing' to the ones who've voiced their doubts loudly: Job, Sarai, Gideon, Esther, and more. If I can't be vocal about my doubts, fears, bitterness, and sins, then I'm helping foster a system of repression, hypocrisy, and secret defeat. We idealize people who seem to publicly succeed, but we need to learn the lessons of how they are succeeding. I think it is only in truthful, faithful, non-judgemental relationship with others, that we get our healing.