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Don’t Forget the Gospel

Remembering to keep first things first:

Never Stray from the Gospel
The two most important words for apologists are the gospel. Do not forget you are sharing good news. The good news tells us that even though you are more deeply flawed than you have ever dared to dream. That good news is made possible by the person of Jesus Christ, who lived the life we should have lived and died the death for sin we should have died, so that we can be made acceptable to a holy God, adopted into his family forever.
It is easy to get into discussion with friends and, in a quest to be right about some particular point, lose sight of the gospel. No one was ever won to Christ through that kind of argument. You did not become a Christian because you were smart or right, or because someone who explained the gospel to you was smart or right. You were saved and are saved because you needed a Savior and he came for you—just because he chose to. That is what grace means. Do not lose sight of grace when you share your faith.
—Joe Coffey, Smooth Stones: Bringing Down the Giant Questions of Apologetics (Cruciform Press, 2011), 105.

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