Are we ready not only to spread our cloaks on the road in front of him, to do the showy and flamboyant thing, but also now to follow him into trouble, controversy, trial and death?
N. T. Wright
Set Apart Christ asLord
1 Peter 3:15 (NASB95)
“but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts...”
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character
Morning And Evening, Page 79
Charles Spurgeon
Make a Defense
1 Peter 3:15 (NASB95)
“to make a defense...”
The task of apologetics, then, is to give a reasoned defense of historic, biblical Christianity. As R. C. Sproul explains, apologetics demonstrates “why Christians are Christians and why non-Christians should be Christians.”5