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Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.
Almost all our witnessing and Christian communication assumes that people are open to what we have to say, or at least are interested, if not in need of what we are saying. Yet most people quite simply are not open, not interested and not needy, and in much of the advanced modern world fewer people are open today than even a generation ago. Indeed, many are more hostile, and their hostility is greater than the Western church has faced for centuries.
We noted earlier that in St. Paul鈥檚 letter to the Romans, he defends the justice of God鈥檚 final judgment as utterly and entirely unanswerable. When that day comes and judgment is made, he writes, 鈥渆very mouth will be closed,鈥 and the word he uses literally means that all humans will be 鈥渁pology-less鈥 (Rom 3:19). At the great assize at the end of the days, when all history鈥檚 books will be opened, when justice will be vindicated for the whole world and shalom will be restored to the last reaches of the cosmos, we will all stand before God defenseless. All human secrets will be laid bare, all
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