Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Whitcomb on Apologetic Methodology

From http://acts18910.blogspot.com/

John Whitcomb gave a series of four lectures on "Contemporary Apologetics and the Christian Faith" at Dallas Theological Seminary, February 8-11, 1977. These were subsequently published in Bibliotheca Sacra in four consecutive issues beginning in April, 1977. The four articles are available on-line at the Whitcomb Ministries website.
If the New Testament is our infallible guide in such matters, we must conclude that the Christian who will be most effectively used by God in winning people to Christ is not necessarily the one who knows the most about secular philosophy, psychology, history, archaeology, or natural science (important though these disciplines may be in their proper place in developing a comprehensive Christian world-and-life view), but rather the Christian who knows most about God's Word and who humbly seeks God's daily strength and wisdom in obeying it. The best Christian apologist is the best student of Scripture, who, to use the Bible's own terms to describe him, is "accustomed to the word of righteousness" (Heb. 5:13), "a workman who does not need to be ashamed" because he is "handling accurately the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15), a man who, like Apollos, is "mighty in the Scriptures . . . instructed in the way of the Lord . . . speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus," and thus able by God's Word to "powerfully refute" unbelievers (Acts 18:24-28).

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