If there's one focus a Church should have, it's on evangelism and missions. It's almost a little redundant to separate those since missions, properly understood, is evangelism. If we're truly doing the will of the Lord and making disciples of all nations, we can't do that by giving people clean water without giving them the water of eternal life. We can't give them bread to … [Read more...]

Recently, I've seen some discussions going on where there seems to be a preponderance of an attitude that I see often going on in the church. It is the attitude that since God is in charge of the universe then we don't really need to be active with how we handle matters. This is the case in politics or in personal Bible study. No need to do much. Let God do His part. After … [Read more...]

Sometimes we expect that a few good arguments will unlock salvation’s door. When we find that they don’t and that we are met with a glaring sneer instead of a grateful embrace, we are hurt and conclude that “apologetics doesn’t work.” We then swing to the opposite – “I’m going to simply let my good works speak for the Gospel.” Admittedly, in our post-Christian society where … [Read more...]

(Or: How Not to Object to Chris­t­ian Apolo­get­ics.) Dear Apol­los: I’m con­cerned about your min­istry. You pub­licly defend the pub­lic res­ur­rec­tion and pub­lic king­ship of Jesus by appeal­ing to pub­lic Scrip­tures and pub­lic evi­dences. You even have the audac­ity to say that Jesus rose bod­ily from the dead and that he is right­ful king over every­thing and … [Read more...]