You can't seriously believe that.

We get that kind of response from someone as we're sharing the gospel with them.

It can cause us to pull back and think we're not adequately prepared.

Today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains how we can confidently respond when skeptics

throw us a curveball.

Tonight we're going to take time to understand our message.

And again, I make no apology for the fact that much of this is repetitive for some, but

those of us who find ourselves in that category must recognize that it is not repetitive for

others.

And in order to be an encouragement to some, we will need to be patient.

And John Stotsbuk, our guilty silence, he suggests that one of the reasons for the silence

of the church is because we either lack a thorough knowledge of the gospel, the good news,

or a conviction about its truth or both.

And then he says there can be no evangelism without an evangel, no mission without a message.

And he quotes a Buddhist monk who said it looks as if Christianity has reached the stage

in adolescence when the child is slightly ashamed of his father and embarrassed when

talking about him.

And those of us who are young enough to remember that adolescent face of seeing our fathers

coming down the street, being with a group of friends from school and wondering which

manhole into which we can possibly crawl because the strangest man in the world is about

to walk down the street, namely our dad.

And the Buddhist monk was suggesting that perhaps that's how Christians feel about their

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