Ravi Zacharias - The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind

T oday, many people think it is nave to believe in God because there is not enough evidence for His existence. Others conclude that even if He does exist, He has insufficiently revealed and inadequately explained Himself; therefore He has not convinced us that He is real. Even less has He affirmed that the claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ are true and lead to a worldview that offers the most coherent and logical answers to lifes four essential questionsorigin, meaning, morality, and destiny.

For the Christian this is where the battle must be fought, for no worldview suffers more from the loss of belief in God than the Christian one. And unless the logic of Godthe evidence He has provided us of His existenceis defended, is sought after, is fully engaged with our hearts and minds, every essential of the Christian faith will be deemed illogical and untrue, thereby making them unworthy of rational assent.

The question then is, how does a person come to view this logic (this evidence) as a reason to believe in a God on whom all other essentials of the Christian faith are built, by which life must be governed, and with which your personal beliefs, your culture, and the unique message of Jesus Christ are examined? The purpose of this book, and the way it is designed to be used, is to guide you on that journey. Here is a collection of my writings, most never before published in book form, selected for their perspective on the many ways God has provided us with evidence of His existence and how this logic gives life meaning, establishes the credibility of the Christian message, shows the weakness of modern intellectual movements, demonstrates the certainty of the claims of Jesus Christ, and validates biblical teaching and Christian apologetics.

Before you begin to engage with this material, let me give you a glimpse of the opportunity you have to experience this book in the most meaningful way. The Logic of God contains fifty-two readings. Each reading is preceded by a relevant quote from the Bible. Ive added two other features to help you reflect on important themes in the readings (Reflection Questions) and apply the lessons learned from the readings (Personal Application).

Because these readings will consistently challenge your mind and stir your heart, and the questions and applications will take time to process, I recommend that, if possible, you spend a week with each experience. If you start on a Monday, think of it as a kind of Thank God Its Monday summons, add that clich to your intention, and thus help make your usual Mondays actually something to look forward to. Whatever motivates, right?

Okay. I know. A year is a big commitment. But the issues surrounding the subject of truth are serious business and have eternal consequences.

God wants us to know Him personally and live out our faith day by day in meaningful ways, but the noise, chaos, clutter, and busyness of life so often overwhelm that we find it difficult, if not impossible. We also can just routinely go through life not even conscious of His existence and end up trapped in a vicious cycle of wrong thinking and believing, and the cardinal statement of Jesus, I am the way and the truth and the life, becomes meaningless.

Dear reader, thank you for beginning your personal journey with these fifty-two experiences, for in so doing you are demonstrating a desire to know God more deeply and walk in intimate oneness with Him though His Son, Jesus Christ. God wants you to be ever more confident that He is real, that He loves you and desires to fulfill all the longings of your heart.

With my prayers for your journey,
RAVI