but it is all just a psychological trick, a kind of brainwashing or conditioning. You are familiar with these modern attacks upon the Christian faith. There is only one answer to that, and it is this: the Christian’s position does not depend upon experience—it depends upon the word, it depends upon the truth. So these first believers and Philip did not talk about themselves but told the people the facts about our Lord. Like Paul they were preaching “Jesus, and the resurrection” (Acts 17:18). They