October 23, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Monday, October 23.
Yesterday, we welcomed a guest teacher to our church. He was an expert in the area of Apologetics. That's a term that, perhaps, isn't widely known or well understood. The word comes from the Greek "apologia." That sounds like our word "apology," but has more in common with the legal term, defense.
In Acts 26, when we see the Apostle Paul in court, defending himself before the Roman governor, Felix, and the Jewish king, Agrippa, the word apologia is used. And the Apostle Peter uses it in I Peter 3:15 - "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."
In our world today, an era that some have called "Post Christian," it becomes more and more important that believers be able to give a reasoned and thoughtful argument (another legal term) concerning what we believe.
Titus 1:9 - "We must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that we can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it".
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
