Apologetics
Living in a secular country we are free from persecution, we have the ability to seek out for ourselves and investigate theology and our rich heritage. Yet how many do? Unfortunately preachers and layman have to worry about what man thinks, they don’t want to offend people or drive them away from church. When in the fact, really we need only concern ourselves with what our Lord thinks, because when all is said and done, we have to stand judgment before Him for our works in the life.
It is vital to have apologetics. Over are the days of “oh don’t worry about all those questions you have, just know Jesus”.
People want and need to engage with us and speak of things that they have knowledge about. We must be able to give answers from our faith and from Scripture for everything. I don’t even tell them that my answers and reasoning is from Scripture, because wisdom is wisdom and will be accepted by most.
Once they trust and believe what we say about earthly things, then they will believe what we say about spiritual things, along with God’s divine illumination of course!
Blessings
Tags: Christianity
April 16th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I couldn’t agree more! Christians living in the modern world are going to need to know how to defend their faith – know what they believe and why.
If anyone is interested, I started a wiki (a website which many people can edit) on apologetics which Christians can edit. It’s at http://www.apologetics-wiki.com