In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more
secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many
Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and
apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open,
interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most
people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to
persuade--to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who
are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a
comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative
persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and
preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in
persuasion--the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we
are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a
one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to
two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the
tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis,
Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how
apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the
imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on
listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of
transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the
fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and
discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual
centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of
Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers
of our era.
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Humbling
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 | Review
by: Madimetja M.
This book humbled me, i now find myself applying my critical thinking skills with a little more patience , love and wisdom.
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