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Is Your Church Rehdy?
 
Motivating Leaders To Live An Apologetic Life
 
Ravi Zacharias
Norman Geisler
General Editors
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 THE PASTOR AS AN APOLOGIST
Chapter 2 FOUR CHALLENGES FOR CHURCH LEADERS
Chapter 3 THE CHURCH AS THE HEART AND SOUL OF APOLOGETICS
Chapter 4 THE PRIORITY OF APOLOGETICS IN THE CHURCH
Chapter 5 ARROWS AND SWORDS IN THE CHURCH
Chapter 6 CREATING AN APOLOGETIC CLIMATE IN THE HOME
Chapter 7 OFF TO COLLEGE: CAN WE KEEP THEM?
Chapter 8 ISSUES AND APPROACHES IN WORKING WITH INTERNATIONALS
APPENDIX: CHURCH LEADERS’ ANNOTATED RESOURCE GUIDE
Notes
Acknowledgments
Also by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler
Copyright
About the Publisher
Share Your Thoughts
Preface
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he book you have in your hands is the fruit of the vision of Dr. Norman Geisler, who has labored long to equip church leaders—and others who desire to share the gospel winsomely and effectively—to be apologists. While Ravi Zacharias pays tribute to him in the accompanying volume titled Who Made God?
in which his writings are highlighted, it is appropriate to acknowledge his contribution in soliciting authors and chapters for this book as well.
In John 13 we witness Jesus tenderly washing his disciples’ feet, knowing that only hours later he would be betrayed by one and abandoned by the others on his way to the cross. Jesus says to them,”If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you” (verses 14-15 RSV
, emphasis mine). This unique parallel construction of linking identical phrases such as “washed…feet” and “wash…feet” by using the word ought
is found four times in the writings of John, who is identified as the disciple whom Jesus loved. For example, in 1 John 2:6, John writes that if we abide in Christ, we “ought to walk
in the same way in which he walked”
(RSV)
. And in 1 John 3:16 and 4:11, this same parallelism links ought
with laying down one’s life and loving others: Just as God has loved us sacrificially, so ought we to love. It seems particularly significant, then, that we first hear this phrase from Jesus immediately upon washing his disciples’ feet, because Jesus is essentially mirroring
—by both his words and his actions—what a servant-teacher is.
Jesus’ model of the servant-teacher is a high calling to church leaders, but then again, it is a high calling to each of ............

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