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Takeaways:
Chapter 1 - Xian's have lost ability to comm gospel to post-Christian/pluralistic culture. - Jesus comm in a way that people recognized truth despite themselves/worldview.
Chapter 2 - Technique "All good thinking is a matter of asking and aTakeaways:
Chapter 1 - Xian's have lost ability to comm gospel to post-Christian/pluralistic culture. - Jesus comm in a way that people recognized truth despite themselves/worldview.
Chapter 2 - Technique "All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?" - p.31 - 1) There is no one way to share Gospel. Trying to force a technique on someone shows you don't care about the person. 2) It's an art, not a science. - "There is a time for stories and a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use and when." - p.34 - Paradigm Shift - borrowed the idea from language and experience of Christian conversion. Thus: a change in worldview/mind to truth is part of conversion. Great discussion on p.42-43 on conversion/paradigm shift. - Repentance is not just intellectual, but spiritual and moral as well. - Our apologetics must come from our own experience and love for God. - "Christian advocacy must move from our love for God and his truth and beauty, to our love for the people we talk to and work right up to their love for God and his truth and beauty in turn." - p.45
Chapter 3 - The Defense Never Rests - "Good questions are always more subversive than statements... A good question is not so obvious, and where it leads to is hidden." - p.53 - Sin is... 1) A claim to the right to myself 2) the deliberate repudiation of God and the truth of his way of seeing things ... which leads to "the final finger always pointing at God. "Why does God allow...?"" - Sin frames God falsely - p. 54 Thus, 1) Apologetics are all about the Lord 2) They are not about us or our ability to win an argument/defense - It is true because it is truth. "We therefore speak on behalf of God, we speak under God, and we have no authority or power apart from God. The prophet's formula is always "Thus says the Lord," and the worst indictment against the false prophets was their presumption in claiming to speak for God when their words were entirely their own. In short, the major work in the defense of the faith is about God and by God. It is not about us, and it is not up to us." - p.60...more
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