Part 4: Defending Your Faith
This is the passage that gives us the term “apologetics.” But Peter’s not talking about winning arguments. He’s talking about living with a hope that causes people to ask questions, and then having the wisdom, boldness and humility to answer those questions.
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
