The Evangelist Must Cling To Christ (C.S. Lewis)

In an essay on apologetics, C.S. Lewis wrote words which can and should be read and taken to heart by every evangelist. In fact, if we substitute the word “evangelist” for the word “apologist” it is as if he were writing for those who proclaim the Good News.

“…I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of the apologist (evangelist). No doctrine of the faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

For a moment, you see, it has seemed to rest upon oneself: as a result, when you go away from that debate, it seems no stronger than that weak pillar. That is why we apologists (evangelists) take our lives in our hands and can be saved only by falling back continually from the web of our own arguments, as from our intellectual counters, into the Reality – from Christian apologists (evangelists) to Christ Himself