
Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness

Or they would just invite the unconvinced to a game.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
Apologetics should never be severed from a strong doctrine of the church or careful reflection on the implications of the gospel. Christians should never set up word in opposition to deed.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
God himself has always existed as a relational being; he exists in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Relationality is not something God was lacking before he created angels or human beings; relationality has always been fundamental to the nature of God himself, and by extension, reality. God has eternally been a personal God relating in c
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it is rarely effective to simply force standard arguments onto others—arguments that, while perhaps well-reasoned, don’t pay proper attention to context and the uniqueness of the other person.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
The laws of nature are not actually laws at all. The laws of nature are not unbreakable rules; rather, natural laws are what normally happens.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
The unbeliever’s problem is not knowledge; it is submission.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
“Nevertheless, if they do not even believe that those miracles were effected through Christ’s apostles, to ensure belief in their proclamation of Christ’s resurrection and ascension, then this one overpowering miracle is enough for us—that the whole world has come to believe in it without any miracles at all!”
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
One of our jobs as apologists is to ask the question, “But what if it is true?”
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
Unbelievers should not inconsistently demand a standard of proof for God that could never be applied to some of their most basic commitments.