Thread by @tisaiahcho

A good way to convince people that they need to take what the Bible says seriously is by showing that you take it seriously when it calls you to love your neighbor, pray for your enemies, care for the least of these, bear your cross, bear one another's burdens, and pursue peace.

The "apologetic of action" has always been powerful in the history of the church. Multitudes of people did not come into proximity to the life of the church because they were convinced of some abstract apologetic argument. Rather, it was because Christians were living out

a new ethic from a new kingdom from a God who speaks life through his Word. They saw goodness and blessing pour over from the lives of Christians. "Could Jesus be real?" was not an abstract question, but a question they asked when they saw the poor fed, the wounded healed,

the orphan finding a home, the widow dignified.

In this day and age where the church in the U.S. is filled with stories of abuse, hypocrisy, and grabs for power, people are not looking for the next best intellectual argument for the existence of God. They couldn't care less

about the impossibility of the contrary, presuppositional apologetics, or the idea of borrowed capital. They care about authentic and lively faith. They care about being wrapped up into a story that seems too good to be true. They care about a faith that proclaims a God of the

oppressed and a Savior of the weary and heavy-laden. They want a faith that walks as much as it talks and that values consistency between what you do and what you say. They want to see a faith that brings the kingdom to bear here and now, not a pie in the sky, off in the horizon

fantasy of escape.

Now is a good of a time as any to reshape our apologetic method and apologetic vision.