Because it is exactly those on the sidelines, young or old, small or great, who are asking the questions, fed by them through satanic agitators disguised as evolutionistic scientists and teachers, to scoff at the existence of a Living God and His Only Begotten Son, by which they can be rescued from the life of sin, ignorance, and eternal pain that otherwise awaits them.
Does that compute with you, that a soul-warner ought to be able to answer these questions adequately to get through to the root problem?
And that is why defenders of The Faith contend for it here on FR as well as in their daily conversations with those who have been sidelined by Satan?
dear imar,
Your rhetoric resonates well within the walls of the old Aofg building.
Your use of language, particular to those who sit beside you on the pews, does NOT compute, with all of those on the sidelines, because it would bring from memory, all those ‘humahumanukkahumahumaahum’ TV preachers, and their minds will just click to the ‘off’ position.
Also. you might not know, they recently aired on a cable channel, ‘The Wind and the Lion’, a movie where a guy claimed to be ‘the defender of the faithful .... mohammedans. ‘Defender of the faithful’ means you are going to beat the crap out of someone who says you are full of it. Change that term, and you might do something.
Billy Graham never hit anybody over the head with their weighty Collegiate New International Version, with their name embossed on it, and all the pages still shiny 5 years after purchase, and all those stick-on tabs still new.
I remember a sign, placed above the exits of the sanctuary, “Your mission field begins here.” You can’t make folks envious, when you’re preaching. You have to go through, ‘Show and tell’.