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In the post-Christian context, general population life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are available to, interested in, and needy for religious insight when progressively many people are not. The urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade - to produce a convincing case for the Gospel to individuals who are not thinking about it. In his magnum opus, Operating-system Guinness offers a thorough demonstration of the artwork and electric power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing, but are strikingly weakened in persuasion - the ability to talk to individuals who are closed from what has been said. Genuine persuasion requires greater than a one-size-fits-all way. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two different people the same manner, and neither should we." Following the traditions of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Peter Berger, Guinness shows how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to shock them with signs of transcendence and the credibility of the Gospel. This reserve is the super fruit of 40 years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive electric power of Christian witness in one of the key apologists and thinkers of the era.
