A church without apologetics is a church without Scripture
Rephrased: A church that doesn’t actively include apologetics in their ministries and preachings is a church that doesn’t teach and follow all Scripture. Others have said that one can tell whether a pastor engages in evangelism by how passionate they are for apologetics. The life of apologetics in church history: 1000, 100, 50 years ago, society generally believed that God exists, and church leaders just needed to teach them what to believe about God. There wasn’t as much need to defend the existence of a deity that most people believed existed. Those days are long past. These days, most people either don’t believe God exists or that belief has no impact on their daily life. Even many today who say they believe in God actually believe in a deity of their own creation, and either don’t know or can’t tell the difference. Despite those historical societal points, apologetics was still taught: Tertullian, Augustine, Anselm, Pascal, Aquinas, Greenleaf; these leaders of the faith, and many m