{"id":4059,"date":"2022-07-31T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truthreallymatters.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4059"},"modified":"2022-07-31T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:14:43","slug":"reimagining-apologetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/truthreallymatters.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4059","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining Apologetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m 70 years old now, and have been engaged in 1-2-1 evangelism for most of my adult life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried a lot of approaches over the years, but eventually settled into patterns that I believe are Biblical and, therefore, in sync with the way the Lord Jesus would have me share the Gospel.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written extensively about this in the Evangelism <\/em>section of this site and in the free e-books on this site.\u00a0 The tracts I\u2019ve designed (ThinkTracts.com<\/a>) display my best attempts at combining different aspects of apologetics with a succinct Gospel challenge.<\/p>\n

Yet I still experiment, as I do regularly when I take my grandsons out with me to knock doors in neighborhoods all over our area.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe there is a \u2018magic bullet\u2019 in Gospel presentations, but I do accept my responsibility for making my best effort in reaching the fellow I\u2019m talking to, all the while asking God for guidance and trusting Him to do the BIG work of touching the conscience and mind, convicting the heart and will.<\/p>\n

I recently read Justin Ariel Bailey\u2019s 2021 book, Reimagining Apologetics:\u00a0 The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age<\/em>.\u00a0 I recommend it with some qualifications, despite some reservations that I\u2019ll summarize at the end of this essay.\u00a0 So let\u2019s pluck some nuggets . . .<\/p>\n

Bailey lists some alternative approaches \u2013 truth-oriented apologetics<\/em>, for example, which focuses on an \u201cappeal to external evidences and rational proofs.\u201d\u00a0 He cites William Lane Craig who points out that a Christian may know<\/em> the truth of the Gospel through the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, but demonstrating that truth to the skeptic is another matter.\u00a0 And so we construct a body of evidences to convince the mind.\u00a0 Clearly, though, the mind is not enough.\u00a0 A Biblical model of one made in the image of God includes mind, conscience, memory, emotions, heart, and will.\u00a0 Mr. Mind is just one of six members of your Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

It seems to me there is a huge practical difficulty in executing evidential apologetics (beyond the philosophical difficulties I\u2019ve discussed on this site).\u00a0 I\u2019ve observed that most Christians abhor the idea of studying<\/u> and practicing<\/u> in order to develop the skills to contend for the faith.<\/p>\n

A second approach for one who gets frustrated at building evidential cases is to simply proclaim the Gospel and depend on the \u201cchurch\u2019s communal witness\u201d in day-to-day life.\u00a0 He calls this church-oriented apologetics.<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cThis approach seeks to commend the Christian faith as an imaginative whole.\u00a0 Apologetics is embodied in a revitalized and robust church whose distinctiveness is its most attractive element.\u201d<\/p>\n

My experiences in evangelical and fundamentalist churches indicate that many churches like to think of themselves as embodying, or at least striving to fulfill the Great Commission in this way.\u00a0 They are wrong.\u00a0 In brief, American churches are filled with members who live pretty much the way the rest of the world lives, ie., no distinctivness, and uniformly fail to train their people to actually talk <\/em>to lost sinners about their need for salvation.<\/p>\n

Bailey\u2019s third route, clearly his preferred approach, \u201cseeks to alert outsiders to the way that their embodied, emotional experience of the world may already bear the marks of divine presence.\u201d\u00a0 He calls this \u201cthe apologetics of authenticity.\u201d\u00a0 You don\u2019t leave the other two approaches behind, but you weave in ideas that provoke the hearer\u2019s intuition and imagination, connecting the Christian faith to the aesthetic dimension.<\/p>\n

I identify with his perspective; appealing to the transcendent may be precisely the tool that resonates with some people.\u00a0 Beauty <\/em>in creation is an obvious example.\u00a0 But in my own young life as an atheist, what really gripped me was the idea of hope, an overwhelming yearning that there must be something more<\/u>!<\/p>\n

Bailey seeks what he calls \u201ca thicker authenticity\u201d that extends beyond factual evidence.\u00a0 \u201cApologetics is certainly not less than a defense of the truth of Christianity . . . throughout history apologists have endeavored not merely to show that Christianity is true but also that it is beautiful and good.\u201d\u00a0 Resonant moral values and demonstrated love may be the most direct paths for conveying truth to the lost.<\/p>\n

He suggests that Augustine\u2019s strategy in City of God<\/em> was to offer \u201ca larger story of the world rooted in an ontology of peace rather than violence.\u201d\u00a0 This idea \u2013 that of worldview \u00ad\u00ad<\/em>\u2013 is at the heart of presuppositional apologetics.\u00a0 Explain and embrace a Biblical worldview with respect to history, science, morality, and love, etc., and this world and our lives within it are tractable.\u00a0 Life makes sense if and only if we see ourselves as God\u2019s creation, as image-bearers and yet sinners, fallen, broken, in need of redemption and, once we\u2019re born again, with a life\u2019s purpose centered in the Great Commission.\u00a0 In such light the pervasive distractions of politics, success in business, wealth acquisition, and entertainments are seen for the trivialities they really are.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity is beautiful because it is good, and good because it is true.\u201d\u00a0 The seeker can enter in at any door and discover all the riches of the house.\u00a0 \u201cWe want non-believers to understand that Christianity is not narrow but a vision that includes everything, restoring the lost beauty of the world.\u201d\u00a0 This last thought can be expressed by telling the lost fellow that although the world is grossly messed up now, by us<\/em>, when Jesus comes back He is going to set things right.\u00a0 If we\u2019re on the right team, we get to be part\u00a0 of that.<\/p>\n

Bailey begins the arguments in his book by emphasizing the value of imagination in belief.\u00a0 Provoke desire, create a vision in the mind of the hearer.\u00a0 To do this effectively we must have empathy.\u00a0 When I\u2019m engaged in a 1-2-1 I\u2019m watching body language, asking questions, listening.\u00a0 I may or may not do it well, but I\u2019m trying to connect, to suggest an idea that grabs hold, that the Holy Spirit will use in the days following to bring conviction.<\/p>\n

Above all, OF COURSE, we must convey the essential truths of sin, judgment, repentance, faith, the cross and the resurrection, the new birth, etc.\u00a0 It\u2019s not hard to give witness to the fundamentals.\u00a0 (See my \u2018how-to\u2019 essays in the Evangelism section of this site.)\u00a0 Three minutes is enough to share the essentials.\u00a0 But you\u2019ve got to try to earn a few extra minutes to provoke curiosity and hope and imagination to leave with the hearer a desire to know more.\u00a0 Oh my! \u2013 Our part is both simple and impossible.\u00a0 We must pray for wisdom and trust the Lord to walk before us, with us, and after us, staying \u2018on the trail\u2019 of the hearer.<\/p>\n

Bailey uses the term Uppercase Apologetics <\/em>for the \u201cevidence-that-demands-a-verdict\u201d approach.\u00a0 It\u2019s designed to provoke an intellectual obligation to believe.\u00a0 Lowercase Apologetics<\/em>, then, is the messy and varied work we must do as we address the real stumbling blocks of the hearer, that he might not even admit to.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLowercase apologetics seeks to give outsiders a maximally hospitable space to consider the invitation of faith.\u201d\u00a0 The hope is to frame the good news \u201cwith a force that can be felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re working to convey truths that open up a life that makes sense.\u00a0 Now, I think Bailey goes too far in his description\u00a0 here, suggesting that a lost sinner feels \u201cthe internal call to compose an original life . . .\u201d, while warning that phrases like \u201cfollow my heart\u201d and \u201cchoose my own adventure\u201d may tempt toward narcissism.<\/p>\n

What he should emphasize is that conversion requires a humbling<\/u>, a repentance that seeks God\u2019s will in the future for all aspects of life, recognizing that we are too sinfully stupid to design our own lives.\u00a0 The new Christian properly recognizes that God is smarter than he is and that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

On the transcendent aspects of conveying Gospel truth, Bailey cites Marilynne Robinson who notes that we, as humans, \u201cparticipate in eternal things \u2013 justice, truth, compassion, love.\u00a0 We have a vision of these things we have not arrived at by reason, have rarely learned from experience, have not found in history.\u00a0 We feel the lack. \u00a0Hope leads us toward them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed.\u00a0 So why not find ways to convey these thoughts in even a briefly extended 1-2-1?\u00a0 Everyone wants hope and meaning.\u00a0 The idea that God loves us individually even though He knows everything <\/em>about us should be startling, when considered.\u00a0 Given the possibility of hope<\/strong>, in utter opposition to the hopelessness of an atheistic worldview, or the debilitating uncertainties of false religious systems, shouldn\u2019t the lost fellow take the Christian\u2019s message seriously enough to investigate?\u00a0 Most people do more research on the internet before they buy a car or a refrigerator than they ever do regarding their eternity.<\/p>\n

In C.S. Lewis\u2019 The Weight of Glory<\/em>, he famously challenges,<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think I am trying to weave a spell?\u00a0 Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales.\u00a0 Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them.\u00a0 And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years.\u00a0 Almost our whole education has been directed to silencing this shy, persistent inner voice; almost all our modern philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on this earth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Bailey suggests an intriguing view of religious history.\u00a0 Ancient paganism was rife with magic.\u00a0 The medieval ‘church’ (Roman Catholic Church) offered protection from evil magic through good magic mediated by saints and relics and the Mass.\u00a0 \u201cBy contrast, the Reformers emphasized the need to \u2018leap out of the field of magic altogether, and throw yourself on the power of God alone.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 (I would just modify the thought by pointing out that true Biblical Christianity in the West \u2013 The Trail of Blood <\/em>\u2013 was always there.\u00a0 The Reformers\u2019 principal service was to break the hegemony of the RCC.)<\/p>\n

In New Testament Christianity, all people have access to grace, and all places are sacred when communing with God, since all born again believers are priests with direct access.\u00a0 Bailey observes that medieval worship was centripetal<\/em>, drawing worshipers toward the Mass, whereas Christian worship is centrifugal<\/em>, directing energy outward into the lives of believers and those they work to reach.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll note that within evangelicalism and fundamentalism, the program is still largely centripetal<\/em>, as evidenced by mega-facilities, worship teams, winsome speakers, and activities to fascinate everyone.\u00a0 Just follow the program and you\u2019re a fine Christian!<\/p>\n

Christian practice and experience in the West is oh-so-superficial, oh-so-weak.\u00a0 There is no resonance!<\/em>\u00a0 Bailey defines resonance <\/em>as \u201ca sense of existential \u2018fit\u2019 with a particular vision of the world.\u201d\u00a0 For the unbeliever it is hard to break the resonance <\/em>his life has with woke politics or career ambitions or substance abuse or sports fanaticism or partying (alcohol & fornication).\u00a0 In fact, it is impossible without the work of the Holy Spirit and <\/em>a cogent and punchy Gospel witness.\u00a0 Even then, it\u2019s rare. \u00a0God has granted each of His image-bearers with spectacularly-free will.\u00a0 What is the Christian witness to do?\u00a0 Well, we can\u2019t quit.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to try.\u00a0 Sadly, the churches wherein the Christians reside, do little to create resonance <\/em>connecting believers to the passion the Lord Jesus has for reaching the lost.<\/p>\n

Bailey considers some of the work of the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834).\u00a0 Schleiermacher was raised by Moravians, ordained in a Reformed church, and influenced by the German Romantic movement.\u00a0 He argued that the essence of Christianity was not rooted in metaphysics or morality, but in a consciousness of the eternal.\u00a0 He rebuked the Romantic \u201ccultured despisers of religion\u201d who rejected the Gospel as irrational and irrelevant. \u00a0Friedrich worked to show that man\u2019s love of natural beauty and artistic creation were strong evidences of gifts from God, \u201can irrefutable sense or hunger for the infinite.\u201d\u00a0 The transcendent has no place in a materialistic worldview.<\/p>\n

He goes on to argue that prophetic ministry is to make others feel this intuition that the universe is more than can be seen.\u00a0 And so we ought to minister not just from pulpits and street corners, (Bailey) \u201cbut from the pens and brushes of writers and artists, who excel at giving us images and stories that resonate with our intuitive sense of our place in the world.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised that Bailey does not mention the powerful books and essays penned by Francis A. Schaeffer on this very point.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll comment that my own skills in artistic imagery are woeful, and so I eagerly enlist the help of a professional graphic artist, and occasionally one of my grandsons, in developing the imagery for the tracts I design.\u00a0 The historic success of Chick Publications\u2019 comic book tracts are wonderful examples, and continue to be used prolifically in poor countries where fewer people are spoiled by the imagery Americans enjoy on laptops and smartphones.<\/p>\n

Bailey:\u00a0 \u201cPerhaps truth-oriented apologists have it backwards.\u00a0 Perhaps it is truth that provides the final \u2018push\u2019 into belief once the imagination is already captivated by the goodness and beauty of the Christ.\u201d\u00a0 Additionally, Bailey asserts that one\u2019s search for meaning is primarily about imagination in the aesthetic realm, and only secondarily for the intellect.\u00a0 Could be.<\/p>\n

Novelist George MacDonald is cited regarding the temptation to win arguments using apologetics.\u00a0 \u201cWhen a man reasons for victory and not for the truth in the other soul, he has just one ally \u2013 the devil.\u00a0 The defeat of the intellect is not the object of fighting with the sword of the Spirit, but rather the acceptance of the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey gives us an excellent discussion of exploring apologetics through MacDonald\u2019s fictional characters.\u00a0 For example, surgeon Paul Faber is an atheist whose dedicated service to humanity should put him in contact with the transcendent \u2013 with God \u2013 in his strong desire to love his neighbor, but pride deludes him into self-satisfaction as he congratulates himself on his benevolence.<\/p>\n

MacDonald makes clear that Faber is not as good as he thinks and that God is far better than Faber believes.\u00a0 Faber\u2019s Christian friend, Thomas Wingfold, decides not to answer Faber\u2019s skeptical criticisms directly, but rather probes the roots of his objections.\u00a0 Faber\u2019s humane version of atheism \u201cveiled the pride behind it all, the pride namely of an unhealthy conscious individuality, the pride of self as self<\/em>, which makes a man the center of his universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

When a young, bereaved husband expresses his submission to God\u2019s will in front of Faber, the surgeon scoffs at the existence of such a God, whereupon the young man \u201cturned white as death.\u201d\u00a0 Hearing about this, Wingfold rebukes Faber:\u00a0 \u201cYou were taking from him his only hope of seeing her again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember, hope <\/em>is one of the \u2018big three\u2019:\u00a0 faith, hope, & charity.\u00a0 For me, as a young atheist, hope was the biggest of the big three.\u00a0 Hope is what I craved, but hope had to be grounded in reality.\u00a0 And so I searched out God\u2019s reality and found an assured hope, grounded in God\u2019s word.\u00a0 Hope for the future infuses our soul.\u00a0 The hope to live again with our loved ones is sourced in God.<\/p>\n

Knowing that the soul we witness to is kin to our soul, we should use this in 1-2-1 evangelism.\u00a0 I often tell someone who is a husband and father that his family\u2019s salvation depends on him repenting and coming to Christ.\u00a0 Only then can he work to save his family, and save them for eternity.\u00a0 Let this thought work in his heart.<\/p>\n

Bailey reminds us that if there is no one to turn to in the midst of suffering, then there is no one to thank for the joys of life.\u00a0 Also, \u201cMaterialism suffers from a profound inability to account for beauty and . . . meaningless beauty also entails meaningless barbarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacDonald writes his novels to stir readers \u201cto find a God worthy <\/em>of belief, one whose presence accounts not just for truth and goodness but also for beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

How is this possible?\u00a0 How can this work?\u00a0 This is what it means for us to be made in the image of God.\u00a0 God has wired our characters to recognize truth and beauty, to desire justice, to honestly confess our need for mercy, and to recognize the light of Gospel truth . . . if we choose to.\u00a0 God gives us spectacularly-free <\/em>will.\u00a0 God\u2019s family adopts and embraces only volunteers.<\/p>\n

It is central that we remember and remind those we witness to, that the Lord Jesus Christ, a person, <\/em>is the source and embodiment of truth, love, and beauty.\u00a0 See John 17:3.\u00a0 This is how to know God.\u00a0 Once you know <\/em>Him, you cannot be dissuaded.\u00a0 How could someone convince me that my wife does not exist?\u00a0 How much less could someone convince me to return to atheism or the false religion in which I was raised?<\/p>\n

Bailey\u2019s theme is that our job, as evangelist, is to awaken what is already there inside each lost image-bearer.\u00a0 We certainly must use the law, the commandments to convict the conscience of sin \u2013 everyone knows he is guilty of offending God and harming others.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never met a dispassionate atheist who came to his worldview on analytical grounds, and attempts to practice his materialism consistently.\u00a0 Atheists, rather, are quite visceral in clinging to their religion.\u00a0 But so also are lost religious people who hold to their works-based systems without confessing how utterly un-righteous their lives are.\u00a0 We are all but sinners in need of the one and only Saviour.<\/p>\n

Marilynne Robinson argues that a Christian vision of the world earns its authority by winning aesthetic assent. \u201cIt is discerned by a spirit of recognition just like great poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve experienced this and I\u2019m sure you have, too.\u00a0 When confronted with a new and important idea, the realization that it is true and I should act accordingly manifests as something like an inner light \/ warmth \/ peace \/ resonance . . . it suddenly just makes sense, an aesthetic sense.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t\u00a0 come from spreadsheets and probability calculations.\u00a0 You suddenly just realize that it\u2019s right.\u00a0 I experienced this even within my physics education.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t understand or get comfortable with a new idea until it suddenly just made sense.\u00a0 When it felt right,\u00a0 it was mine and it was true.<\/p>\n

Bailey contrasts the two authors that he analyzes in some depth:\u00a0 George MacDonald and Marilynne Robinson.\u00a0 Unlike MacDonald, Robinson is not interested in converting unbelievers.\u00a0 She writes, \u201cWhile my thinking is Christian, it has led me to a kind of universalism that precludes any notion of proselytizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, then, her thinking is not<\/u> Christian after all, is it?\u00a0 Despising the Great Commission and affirming universalism are anti-Christian positions.<\/p>\n

Instead, Bailey explains, Robinson targets contemporary ideologies like Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudianism.\u00a0 She sees them as narrow visions of the world, whose adherents \u201cexclude experiences that do not fit their explanatory filters.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s certainly true.\u00a0 So why not try to convert them?\u00a0 Don\u2019t you care?<\/p>\n

Apparently, Robinson\u2019s harshest criticisms are reserved for dogmatic atheists and dogmatic Christians.\u00a0 She despises certainty, assuming that it shuts down dialogue.\u00a0 In my own experience as a completely committed Christian, I\u2019ve had wonderful dialogues with completely committed atheists, Mormons, Catholics, Muslims, etc.\u00a0 Consider that the apostle Paul was a completely committed anti-Christian when the Lord Jesus engaged him in dialogue on the road to Damascus.<\/p>\n

Those who hate certainty, who can never settle on simple answers to basic questions, are willfully stupid.\u00a0 There are questions to which you can find answers!\u00a0 True answers.\u00a0 Certainly Bailey would agree to this, which makes me wonder why he features Robinson\u2019s work so extensively in the book.<\/p>\n

As Bailey begins to conclude his arguments he offers that \u201cimaginative apologetics seeks to arouse confidence that the object of our hope is attainable . . . the best apologists tell stories that are able to baptize the imagination . . . arousing us to seek God\u2019s kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Bailey fails to get specific.\u00a0 What does this look like in a face-to-face encounter?\u00a0 When do you include the elements that enable the lost sinner to see what his problem is and how to find the solution?\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to do far more than stimulate his imagination!<\/p>\n

Journalist Mark O\u2019Connell reviewed Robinson\u2019s book Gilead<\/em>, writing, \u201cShe makes an atheist reader like myself capable of identifying with the sense of a fallen world that is filled with pain and sadness but also suffused with divine grace.\u201d\u00a0 Not good enough!\u00a0 O\u2019Connell hasn\u2019t moved a millimeter toward salvation. \u00a0Rather, he\u2019s found some comfort, perhaps, in what he sees as a spiritual metaphor for a miserable existence on a hopeless Earth.\u00a0 He\u2019s still a rebel, but may find delusional solace in Robinson\u2019s universalism, just in case God might actually exist.<\/p>\n

Bailey finishes weaker than he started, as if executing a brilliant Olympic vault, but failing to stick the landing.\u00a0 \u201cThe answer in our polarizing climate is not armed resistance but cultural renewal:\u00a0 telling better stories, painting more beautiful pictures, making connections that were previously unimagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 Don\u2019t stop there.\u00a0 Yes, get creative and stir the imagination, but do stick the landing<\/u>.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just play sweet and nice with the culture.\u00a0 Rather, play offense by preaching sin and judgment, rationality, hope, meaning, beauty, forgiveness, peace, joy, and patience . . . and that everything about Biblical Christianity is rooted in history and in reality.\u00a0 Paint pictures of Biblical families, virtuous businesses, and celebrate the beauty and design in God\u2019s creation while explaining why we live in a fallen world and that redemption must be sought individually.<\/p>\n

When witnessing to an unbelieving scientist, for example, find out why he loves science.\u00a0 Is it symmetry in crystals, or complexity in DNA?\u00a0 Is it the mathematical beauty of Maxwell\u2019s equations and their solutions or the mystical implications of quantum theory?\u00a0 Appeal to his desire to know truth and that the only hope he has to find all <\/em>of truth is to get to know the Author of truth.\u00a0 Then finish the landing by explaining sin, judgment, etc.\u00a0 A Christian need not be a scientist himself to make these points.\u00a0 Whoever the fellow is, find out what resonates and offer hope.<\/p>\n

More likely, the lost lady you\u2019re trying to reach has burdens in her marriage, or her job, or her children are in trouble, or life is simple drudgery.\u00a0 Whatever the problems are, we can empathize and point out that God has solutions or the grace to persevere, but that the real problem is her sins which must be repented from.\u00a0 Years ago I talked regularly to people outside an urban courthouse.\u00a0 They all had big problems.\u00a0 What I worked to convey was that their real problems were bigger than they thought and yet the solution \u2013 Jesus \u2013 is right here for you, today.\u00a0 Once you\u2019re part of His family, He will help you with these other small problems.<\/p>\n

Finally . . . I would recommend this book only if you\u2019re already thoroughly grounded in presuppositional apologetics and 1-2-1 evangelism along the lines I have described thoroughly in the Evangelism section of this site.\u00a0 Otherwise, Bailey\u2019s book may simply confuse and distract from the simplicity that is the Great Commission.\u00a0 I\u2019m concerned that the author, a former pastor and a current professor of theology at Dordt University, seems too little worried about the eternal Hell-bound consequences facing lost sinners if they reject the Gospel.\u00a0 Employing re-imagined apologetics without \u2018sticking the landing\u2019 may prevent a lost fellow from even understanding what the Gospel is, and what his sin problems entail.<\/p>\n

The fundamental thesis, though, is sound.\u00a0 We work to reach mind, heart, and will.\u00a0 It is not hard to have a basic approach to do just that, and then to add a few tools for use in extended conversations.\u00a0 But while you\u2019re working to add to the toolbox, don\u2019t forget to just get out there and talk to people.\u00a0 Anybody that\u2019s too busy to talk, say hi and smile and give them a Gospel tract, just like we did today and every day we leave the house.<\/p>\n