Dr. Miller encourages Christians to embrace an incarnational apologetic that accepts the unreasonableness of faith and trusts in the power of God’s community to persuade. Our Christian ministry of presence is critical to the Gospel because without it we’ll no longer be able to raze the roof off the world’s wisdom and soon we’ll discover that a reasonable faith without Spirit-empowered community leads to culturally impotent religion.

SHOW NOTES

- Incarnational Apologetics is an affirmation of biblical truth demonstrated in your shame-free lifestyle of holiness, your fearless proclamation of the Gospel, your zeal to do good works, and in the transformed life of your disciples.

- The early church flourished not because Paul offered a more persuasive philosophy. Apollos was not a more astute Aristotle. Peter was not a more popular Plato. The church grew because they lived as a community of care and compassion.

- Incarnational apologetics is community-centered, not mind-centered.

- Incarnational apologetics means that the church offers more than an apologetic from reason, the church itself becomes a living apologetic; an apologetic from hope, an apologetic from healing, and an apologetic from comfort.

REFERENCES

Donald E. Blotch, God the Almighty: Power, Wisdom, Holiness, Love.

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