The gospel of Jesus Christ is fixed, unchanging, and unchangeable. Just as God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so, too, is the good news of what Jesus Christ has done. But the methods and strategies Christians use to explain and defend that gospel can vary as much as humanity does. While there have always been many who are skeptical about Christianity’s truth claims, contemporary Western unbelievers represent a new type of skepticism. For this reason Christians do well to examine and reexamine the ways we explain the faith and the ways we attempt to persuade others to explore and embrace it.
One compelling response to twenty-first century Western skepticism comes in a new book by Joshua Chatraw. Telling a Better Story: How To Talk About God in a Skeptical Age explains why the methods of the apologist need to be different now than they were 20 or even 10 years ago. “At one time in the West, Christianity seemed plausible because elements of the Christian story were woven into the fabric of everyday life. Leading institutions, daily practices, and common communication assumed realities such as a heavenly realm, a transcendent moral code, sin, divine judgement, and
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