Apologetics or Christ? Feeling Convicted.

Over the past few months, my dad, a close friend and I, have been on a major Apologetics kick. We’ve listened to hours upon hours of Dr. Greg Bahnsen on worldviews,  apologetics and logic. We’ve read books by Cornelius Van Til, Gordon Clark, Greg Bahnsen, Gary DeMar and Rousas J. Rushdoony. We’ve read articles by Van Til, Clark, Bahnsen, Vincent Cheung  and many more. So we have been devoted to the study of Presuppositional Apologetics for months now and we have gained vast amounts of knowledge, all the while, trying to keep it Christ-centered. Yet lately, I feel as if Christ has been lost from my study of apologetics (I can’t speak for my dad or friend) and now I use my new found knowldge against unbelivers (and sometimes belivers) just to prove a point. As I’ve been reading What Jesus Demands from the World, by John Piper, I feel that I should be concentrating more on strengthening my relationship with Jesus Christ and less on learning how to argue better. 

Please don’t here what I’mm not saying, that apologetics isn’t important, but for me, I believe that my time should be better spent in prayer and meditation. Being able to defend our faith is of extreme importance, but even Musilms have apologists, yet we as Christians have what all other faiths lack, a personal relationship with the Creator of the universe, and I do not want to take that for granted. So I’ll still study and learn but with God’s grace, I hope I can balance it with more prayer, reading and meditation. And with God’s grace, I hope others can also find that balance. 

In Christ,

Scotty