Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care

by Kyle Beshears

Publisher:

B&H

, 2021

Overview

How can you share the gospel with someone who doesn’t care? As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, believers encounter many people who don’t so much doubt God as they are apathetic toward him. In Apatheism, Kyle Beshears urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation and demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors.

Key Features

• Urges us to recapture the joy of our salvation
• Demonstrates how to faithfully display the love of Christ to apatheist friends and neighbors

Contents

Top Highlights

“Apatheism flourishes in a society where belief in God is contestable and diverse and the people are comfortable and distracted (see fig. 1.1). It’s found wherever people pursue fulfillment without God because he’s considered irrelevant to answering questions related to our origin, meaning, and joy.” (Page 12)

“Atheism believes that God does not exist; agnosticism believes that we can’t know whether or not God exists; apatheism believes God’s existence to be irrelevant. It says we shouldn’t care about him at all.” (Page 5)

“Belief is more dynamic than mere thoughts and ideas. Belief animates, moves, and stirs us. And, in our stirring, our hearts affect what we believe.” (Page 56)

“Apatheists don’t need a compelling argument for God’s existence, at least not at first. Remember, they don’t care about God questions anyhow. What they need first is a convincing example of God’s activity in our lives. Apatheists need travel agents who are happy to tell them about the place being advertised because they’ve been there and loved it.” (Page 66)

“In this distracted world, God isn’t merely unneeded, he’s unnoticed. There simply isn’t time to think about something that we doubt exists, is too diverse in options, and doesn’t seem necessary. Besides, even if we want to contemplate belief in God, to concentrate long enough to pick out a pleasing melody in the ‘free jazz’ of belief, we can’t. Our attention has become too divided.” (Page 37)

Product Details

• Title: Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care
• Author: Kyle Beshears
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 125
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Theism › Apatheism--God
• ISBNs: 9781087796666, 9781535991520, 1535991526, 1087796660
• Resource ID: LLS:PTHSMHWWTHDNTCR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-09T18:00:57Z

About Kyle Beshears

Kyle Beshears (PhD, SBTS) serves as instructor of Christian studies and associate dean of the School of Christian Studies at the University of Mobile, and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Church in Mobile, AL.