And evangelism is impossible without it. We shall not win people to Christ by ignoring their problems. The apostles were constantly “arguing” with people out of the Scriptures. Paul’s confident claim before Festus was that what he was saying was “true and reasonable” (Acts 26:25). It does not seem to have occurred to him that apologetics and evangelism were incompatible, or that reasoning was inconsistent with trust in the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, he could describe all his evangelistic activity