There's an interesting guest post on Scot McKnight's blog Jesus Creed from Jeff Cook. You can read it here. Cook makes the point that too often Christian apologists think that all they have to do is win the rational argument against atheists to attract people to the faith. In debates, atheists often seem more persuasive because of the emotional strength of their argument.
Cook suggests it is high time the Christian side considered how important the emotional component of persuading the undecided is. Unless we paint an attractive and desirable portrait of the God we are inviting people to believe in, for most people they won't care how good our rational arguments are.
I think he makes a very valid point.
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