Apologetics

I love to read and let myself be discipled by men who have a much clearer grasp of applying Gods word than I do.

From "Always Ready" , Bahnsen
chpt 10 pg 109-111 Is it necassary?

A surge of pious agreement came over me the first time I heard someone confidently assert that " The word of God no more needs defense than does a lion in a cage. Just let the lion loose, and it will take care of itself!" There seemed something very right about that sentiment. It almost appeared irreverent to disagree with it....

...It is obvious that God does not need our inadequate reasoning and our feeble attempts to defend his word.... But it is misguided.....

A person might think that, because God has the power and ability to provide his family with food and clothing without " help from us",that he does not need to go to work tomorrow.

Thinking like this is unbiblical. It confuses what God Himself needs from us and what God requires of us. It assumes that God ordains ends, but not the means to those ends...there is no need for God to use our evangelistic witness, our daily work for a paycheck or our defense of the faith....but he chooses to do so and he calls us to apply ourselves to them.... the bible also directs us to defend the faith- not because God would be helpless without us, but because this is one of his ordained means of glorifying himself and vindicating his truth....

...1pet 3:15 It is God himself, speaking through Peters inspired words, who calls upon us as believers- each and every one of us- to be prepared to defend the faith in the face of challenges and questions which come from unbelievers-any one of them...

...Our task is to present a faithful and sound witness and defense. The task of persuasion is Gods. That is why apologists should not evaluate their success or adjust their message on the basis of whether the unbeliever finally comes to agree with them or not...