Three steps
Clear the path, stack the case, then tell the truth with your life.
On a napkin
- 1Redefine the goal. Apologia is a defense, not a win. Clear one intellectual roadblock so the gospel can be seen.
- 2Build a cumulative case. Do not offer isolated trivia. Stack beginning, design, manuscripts, and Easter until they interlock.
- 3Make it personal. Marry the facts to a transformed life — with gentleness and respect. 1 Peter 3:15 is a manner, not a slogan.
- 4The aim is not mastery. It is becoming a humble ambassador in an ordinary relationship.
Say this
I am not trying to win you. I have a stacked case I can put on the table — and a life it actually changed. Can I tell you both?
“Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”