Ravi Zacharias, in his address Why I am Not an Athiest*, tells the story of a young teenage boy, maybe 12 or 13, who sits down at the table with his father and begins to talk about his day at school. He tells his father about a particular discussion in one of his classes about the ethics of a certain lifestyle and asks his father what he thinks about it. The father begins to share with his son a verse from Scripture that deals with the issue at hand.
Is this the right approach?
Maybe. But what the son does not say to the father is that, while quoting Scripture works at the kitchen table, it no longer works in our schools. Ravi calls this a prescriptive answer. What his son really wanted to know was why his father believed the Scripture!
It is one thing to know what you believe (the Bible); it is a whole other thing to know why you believe.
Do you know why you believe what you believe?
Join us tonight at XA Service as we look at, what I believe to be, the starting point of finding out!
* This title is a reference to Bertrand Russell's famous book, Why I am Not a Christian. Russell was an atheist.
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