When I first started reading “Already Gone” it seemed as if there was a somewhat of an easy solution to this ‘epidemic’ - just start teaching apologetics. Now that I have spent the last six months reading and pondering this book and Mr. Ham’s ideas; I have come to the conclusion that I now have more questions than less.
I am not saying Mr. Ham is wrong, I think apologetics is good however I think there is more to it! What about the spiritual aspect - are we as a church teaching the deep spiritual things such as speaking in tongues, being slain in the spirit, etc. Is it evident in the lives of the adults; yet alone our students? Are we helping people to get this whole Christianity thing in their hearts. Are we just whitewashing this whole thing or are we really taking them as deep as we need to? I know the old saying ‘you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink‘. So how do we get our youth and ourselves to thirst for a deeper, closer walk with Christ? Because none of us are immune from this epidemic.
I don’t understand Mr. Ham’s statement “It seems to be more a matter of heart issues than head issues.”. To me apologetics is head knowledge? Maybe I am misunderstanding what he is trying to say. Don’t get me wrong I see the importance of apologetics - I am just trying to put on paper the thoughts and ideas going through my head.
Reading this book has been good - I feel it has pushed me to look at things from maybe a little different angle and given me some new insight. I don’t feel like the true ’vaccine’ is in this book. But it has shown us ideas to use to help avoid becoming one of the statistics.
And the pondering goes on.
Dear Lord help me to defend your Word and to live your Word!
Lead us Holy Spirit!!
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