So I’d like you to do a little soul searching. Do you have a delight in the Lord that makes delighting in the Lord something natural for you? I don’t know that you’ll ever be comfortable heralding the news. I always have a bit of a “Here we go” in my heart when I’m sharing the gospel with somebody. But I want to free you with this. The great news about the gospel is that the gospel does the gospel’s work. You don’t have to be an expert. Now I’m not encouraging you to be dumb. So know the Word of God. It’s smart to have some answers, but you don’t have to have all the answers.

I have never won an argument and saw somebody break down, repent and ask Christ into their heart. I’ve never cornered and checkmated an argument over ultimate truth, relativity or science. I’ve just never had it happen where I’ve won the argument and somebody went, “You’re right. Give me Jesus.”

Now I’m not saying there’s not a role for apologetics in the life of the church. I believe there is. But one thing you’ll find is that there is a receptivity to the true gospel that people are attracted to and drawn to that can transcend all the other silly questions that are really there as a barrier to not hear. “So do I want to talk about the Christian perspective on this? No, not right now. Let’s talk about Jesus. When you figure out Jesus, we can talk about this. When you get a hold of who Christ is and have that down, then let’s talk about this issue. But I don’t want to talk about this issue before you understand Jesus. You’re putting a secondary thing in front of a primary thing, and it doesn’t make any sense.”