As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.