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" The choice is not whether you will be a Christian soldier or a Christian civilian, but whether you will be a prepared Christian soldier or an unprepared one." (12)

"We wear God's armor because Jesus wore it first. In the final analysis, standing our ground simply means clinging desperately to Jesus Christ as our only hope of salvation. In that attitude of dependent trust is true victory." (22)

"...it is evident by surveying three prominent apologists within the history of the discipline that what this volume has labeled cultural apologetics should be seen as an apologetic retrieval rather than a novel invention." (Joshua Chatraw)

Great chapter surveying the similarities between Augustine, Pascal and C. S. Lewis's apologetic impulses and "cultural apologetics."

"...the Bible itself is the apologetic. It's the shape of the biblical story, expressed most simply and sparsely in the four moments of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, and also a rich, multi-layered, and exceedingly complex story as we delve into its details. It's the story of reality, the story of the universe in which we actually happen to live, that does the apologetic heavy lifting." (Chris Watkin)

"The church before Christendom wasn't propped up by cultural Christianity, and Christians in many parts of the world today walk with God just fine with no need for cultural crutches. Yes, Christendom may be an asset to Christianity in terms of plausibility structures, making it a live wire in a sociological sense. But theologically we must never assume cultural Christianity supplies the electricity." (Trevin Wax)

Chapter 7 feels simultaneously like the most important chapter and also the most difficult to read. It's a bit of a slog. But an important and worthwhile one.

Dipping into this for a new series in Colossians.

Excellent and measured so far!