Christians owe an “apology” in the secondary sense of the word: “a defense, excuse, or justification in speech or writing, as for a cause or doctrine.”
This blog post is shorter than usual because I will request additional reading. Gary DeMar provoked me to make this appeal. One of his recent blog posts reminded me of a traumatic period in my life. I felt like the Israelites during their Exodus from Egypt, trapped between two powerful…
[Note: this article also appeared (here) in The Paper Pulpit of The Gadsden Times, Jan. 28, 2017.] We Christians place all our eggs in one basket—Jesus Christ. Our knowledge of Jesus comes from a single source—the Bible. We believe it “is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16–17)…
Christians inherently owe the world an apology. Christ’s apostles taught us as much (e.g. 1 Peter 3:15). Our debt is not an expression of “regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another.” We owe an “apology” in the secondary sense of the word: “a defense, excuse,…
