What is Christian Apologetics?
Christian apologetics is not about apologizing to people, but it is about:
- Removing intellectual obstacles that hinder people from embracing Christ as LORD.
- Moreover, it is about fortifying Christians in their faith.
Christian apologetics is about educating Christians from the word of God in defense of their faith, according to 1 Peter 3:15. This is critical today, given the growths of Atheism, Agnosticism, Postmodernism, Islam, and the new spirituality movement in North America and around the World.
Is Christian Apologetics necessary today?
Most Christians today are poorly equipped to refute the growing pressure of anti-Christian arguments. Christians need answers to this main question:” Can you prove it?”. They are also asked by un-churched people and sometimes by their own self: “do you really believe this?”.
From statistics reported by Ratio Christi International, 75% of incoming Christian freshman walk away from their faith by the time they leave college.
Apologetics has an important role in The Church. Apologetics and Pastoral Ministry will keep believers strong and intellectually unshakable in their faith. Apologetics, Pastoral Ministry, and evangelism were combined in the life of Apostle Paul, Justin Martyr. In our days, we see them in Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias, and many more apologists prepared by the Holy Spirit for the Church.
In a good research Article about Francis Schaeffer, Bill Nyman wrote:
“We are called to confront this culture that has abandoned the truth and is steeped in a materialism and consumerism that have somehow been made part and parcel of the spiritual experience of those living in the twenty-first century. In this regard, to be most effective, our apologetic task must be biblical, reasonable, relational, conversational, and incarnational.”
