What holds the church together are the saints. I think church history bears this out. Before there was a Bible or creeds or orthodoxy or an authoritative teaching tradition there were the martyrs and the saints. The key apologetic for Christianity—far more important than knowing the right answers to hard questions—is love. Communities of faith that embody the kindness of God in ‘works of love’ are deeply attractive and are themselves evidence of the truth of the gospel. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed: The primary confession of the Christian before the world is the deed which interprets itself. The lives of the saints will always be our confession before the world.