So we have two choices: We can either wait for God to bring some trial or suffering into our nonbelieving friends’ lives to get their attention, or we can decide to be God’s instrument to create a crisis of belief in the lives of those friends. Certainly this is what Jesus and the disciples did at times to get the attention of those they spoke to (Mark 10:17–22; Acts 17:28–31). In the example in Mark 10, Jesus spoke to the rich young ruler in such a way as to get him to come to terms with two discrepancies: