Dear en,
I enjoyed the article by Chris Sinkinson in the November issue. I tend to be ‘apologetics phobic’, as I find the argument sometimes too clever and too difficult to get a grip on. Also I resent the assumption that everything in arguing for the faith is about issues directed against belief in Jesus. To be honest I get grieved that so much of this apologetics is done at universities around the world. Chris Sinkinson’s final paragraph sums it up well and nicely links up the intellectual side of faith and the daily living it out part.
I realise that apologists have thought ahead and come up with rational answers to questions on faith and Jesus. But this skilful preparation is often not the tool you need in witnessing and can come across as being over people’s heads. Paul summed it up well when he said we need to get alongside people: ‘To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings’ (1 Corinthians 9).
