Posted on 05/20/2020 3:44:12 AM PDT by SkyPilot
As believers around the world mourn the death of beloved Bible teacher Ravi Zacharias, popular Christian leaders are posting their own tributes.
“I join the thunderous applause of Heaven,” wrote Louie Giglio, founding pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, in a tribute to the late apologist.
Zacharias passed away Tuesday at the age of 74 after a battle with sarcoma, a rare form of cancer in the itinerant speaker’s spine. Zacharias had traveled to Houston for chemotherapy treatment after the cancer was found by surgeons performing back surgery on him. He was subsequently sent home to Atlanta after oncologists determined the cancer was too advanced for continued treatment.
Christian author Jackie Hill Perry wrote Tuesday about the time she and her husband, Preston, met Zacharias, praising him for his humility and “naturally inquisitive” spirit.
“In his office that day, I understood why he knew as much as he did, it was because he was naturally inquisitive,” she wrote. “But I also saw why he was able to communicate as he did, because he was incredibly humble. For anybody who has been impacted by Ravi, today we grieve, but not without hope. A part of me is so happy for him. He’s spent decades of his life defending the validity, necessity, and beauty of a Person and now, face to face, He finally stands before the One He defended.”
The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and president of the humanitarian nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse, described Zacharias as “one of the great Christian apologists of our time.”
“Don’t feel sorry for Ravi — his fight with cancer is over, and he has placed his crowns at the feet of the One who deserves all glory and honor,” Graham wrote.
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Oh, that’s a shame. I had no idea he was ill.
He was not ill long.
I don’t necessarily listen to radio sermons, but his were riveting.
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”
Matthew 25:23
Alleluia
“Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. ‘Yes’ says the Spirit ‘that they rest from their labors and their works follow them.’ “
Rev. 14:13
Apologist? Why apologize for embracing Christianity?
Right. I’ve never like the term “apologist” for being an advocate for anything. As if there was something that required an apology.
Definition of apologist
: one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something
so it’s more like defender of the faith
It derives from the Greek word ἀπολογία, meaning "give defense" and Latin word Apologia, meaning to "give an answer."
And Ravi was one of the best at it. Look at some of the videos on YouTube of him speaking at college and university campuses.
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