Apologetics is usually treated as a tool to pick up when needed. Joseph Boot argues the better analogy is not a hammer but your hands. Read more.
Apologetics has often been treated as a tool in the service of evangelism, something to be picked up or put down as the occasion requires. Joseph Boot believes that characterization is mistaken.
Asking when should I use apologetics is usually framed like asking when should I use a hammer. A better analogy, he argues, is when should I use my hands - for most of us hammering is rarely required, and our hands are never set aside. The book works out what follows from that for the ordinary Christian's thinking and speech.
