My weakness saddens me. My inability to boldly speak the truth hurts me. Not that I can’t easily argue doctrine with other believers (even if it happens to be controversial in their eyes), but I find that it is nearly impossibly to just up and share my faith. I can act like a Christian, claim to be one, etc, but to take the step to ask someone what place God has in their life…?

It all boils dwn to the fundamental “foolishness” of the gospel, and my reluctance to look the fool. I’m too proud, I hate failure/rejection too much. Paul lays out the concept of this foolishness pretty quickly in 1 Cor 1. He basically says that the gospel is foolishness to the world, and it’s by God’s power alone (not human wisdom) that people come to believe.

“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.” (1 Cor 1:17)

Apologetics will not get anyone saved. Ravi Zacharias put it well when he said that the sole purpose of apologetics is to clear up some of the smoke to alow people to really see the gospel clearly.

So let us preach the gospel, but “not with wise and persuasive words, so that your faith might not rest on man’s wisdom, but on God’s power.” (1 Cor 2:5)