The Birth of a Vision!

Our vision at Meekness and Truth Ministries is to re-equip the body of Christ in using pre-evangelism tools to supplement and strengthen our collective witness in a post-Christian world. We also desire to be a catalyst to lay people all across the U.S. to rethink how they are doing evangelism in this new millennium.

Yet you may wonder how this vision come about:

Growing up as the son of the apologists, Dr. Norm Geisler, I had an understanding of apologetic issues at a very early age, but did not feel compelled to follow directly in my father’s footsteps.

Yet after I read J.P. Moreland's book "Love Your God With All Your Mind," I felt convicted that something had to be done to change this sad state of affairs in the church that the book addresses. Unfortunately, I didn’t see many Christian ministries really focusing on re-equipping the body of Christ to speak to this generation using a balanced apologetic approach. As a result, God led us to start Meekness and Truth Ministries. Consequently over the next few years we developed a model for pre-evangelism called "Conversational Evangelism."

Last year (through the help of National leaders) we distributed this pre-evangelism curriculum to Campus ministry leaders all across the country. Yet I see that the church needs this kind of equipping as well. So our next goal is to develop a lay curriculum (based on the Conversational Evangelism model) and distribute this material to every major evangelical church in the U.S. in the next two years, with permission to use and adapt at they see fit.

Our goal is to play a part in building a bridge between the apologist and the average lay Christian. The fact is that most Christians are turned off by apologetics because it seems too modern and too confrontational for the kind of postmodern world we live in.  However the pre-evangelism model we have developed teaches how one can use a less direct approach (still using apologetics) in one's witness to others and remain sensitive to postmodern concerns.

Our deep conviction is that if the church only sees apologetics as useful for rigorous debate and argument, we may lose not only the next generation of youth who overemphasize experience, but also the very foundation for the Christian faith and its distinctiveness among competing religious beliefs. 

If you find our materials helpful, please pass them on to your friends in Christ and keep our ministry in your prayers.

Your co-worker in Christ,

Dave Geisler

President, Meekness and Truth Ministries Inc.
dgeisler@meeknessandtruth.org
www.meeknessandtruth.org