How Can You Increase Your Outreach?

You’ve been studying apologetics, but does the truth you
learn leap out of you in conversation with others? Learning more and more
apologetic answers won’t necessarily lead to real conversations with the people
who have the questions. It’s not knowledge of facts that will propel you
towards this, it’s something else. From Trevin
Wax:

Lack of mission is rarely a knowledge
problem; it’s a worship problem. We don’t have any trouble talking about the
things we love most. Whenever we find something worthy of attention, we talk
about it.

The same is true of our
relationship with Christ. The more we are in awe of his worthiness, the more
likely we are to speak of him to others and serve others in his name.

How do we cultivate this? John Piper said in Desiring God:

The fuel of worship is a true vision of the greatness of God; the fire that makes the fuel burn white
hot is the quickening of the Holy Spirit; the furnace made alive and warm by the flame of truth is our renewed
spirit; and the resulting heat
of our affections is powerful worship, pushing its way out in confessions,
longings, acclamations, tears, songs, shouts, bowed heads, lifted hands, and
obedient lives.

And evangelism.

If you’re looking to step outside of apologetics for a bit
and seek a “true vision of the greatness of God,” here are some ideas:

The Bible (See here
and here
for suggestions on how to do this)

The
Holiness of God (His holiness is our cultural blind spot)
Knowing
God (A book about who God is)
A
Praying Life (A review of its
strengths and weaknesses)
Christian
Biographies – lectures by John Piper (See how God has worked in the past—this
is my favorite)