Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

Gentle, Reverent Answers

Dri­ving home from work yes­ter­day, our local Chris­t­ian radio sta­tion was broad­cast­ing a ser­mon by Dr. Adrian Rogers on 1 Peter 3:15, a text I’m quite famil­iar with: “but sanc­tify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to every­one who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gen­tle­ness and rev­er­ence”. I’ll have to be com­pletely hon­est about that last part, the part that says “with gen­tle­ness and rev­er­ence,” I had never really paid much atten­tion to it until Rogers brought it up. For exam­ple, when I do quote 1 Peter 3:15 (which is quite often), I do so in the con­text of some dis­cus­sion on whether or not Chris­tians should engage in apolo­get­ics. What I end up quot­ing looks some­thing like this: “always being ready to make a defense to every­one who asks you … (Read more)