1 John 2:20-23

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.  I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.  Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.  Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Recognizing Jesus is the Son of God (the Christ, the Messiah) is everything. Each person has the freedom to believe however and whatever they want to believe about Jesus. It is clear however that what you choose to believe about Jesus Christ means life or death...in the eternal sense. I pray that as we are engaged by the Holy Spirit to introduce and share the gospel message with those we know, that we would respond and obey His leading! I pray that He would go before us and ready their hearts, and lead us in how to best live for Christ to show them the way.