Conversational Apologetics

Conversational Apologetics

Michael Ramsden – Conversational Apologetics

We live in cultures that are filled with unanswered questions. To many, there is so
much confusion that they stop looking for answers. What can we learn from
Jesus' interaction with other people, and how can that help us in sharing the
Gospel today?
The following transcript of 'Conversational Apologetics' has been kindly produced
by a bethinking listener. Because of the nature of unscripted talks of this type, a
few sections have been 'tidied up' slightly but every effort has been made to
ensure that the transcript is as accurate as possible.
Now, the one thing you have to know about me before I start is that I’m basically
an evangelist-apologist. My natural tendency is to slip into preaching and then to
ask you to give your lives to Christ. That’s my basic expository style – normally to
take any passage of Scripture and start making a line for the cross, which I
normally find isn’t such a bad idea. Within those limitations, please bear with me.
Part of what I want to do this afternoon is to make you think, and very deliberately
I see that as part of what we even do as an organization – to try to get people to
think. As I do that, if I start to speak so quickly that the time disappears to the
point whereby there is no time for you to actually think anymore, just wave at me,
I’ll know you’re not saying "Hello!" and I’ll remember to breathe. I might happen to
get very excited when I talk about the gospel and my speed increases. And since
we’ll be looking at how we might begin to share the gospel in a culturally relevant
way in a conversational context, which I have a huge passion for, I get so excited
that you may feel you need translation into English. And so, please do wave and
I’ll remember to breathe. My mother is in Cyprus, I was raised in the Middle East
and passion is just part of my general makeup and I apologize for that right up
front.
Now let me try to introduce what I would like to...

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