McKnight on McManus: The Inner Apologetic

Fascinating reflections from Scot McKnight on Erwin McManus’ book “Soul Cravings”. He boils McManus’ point down to the idea that:

“If God is real and you are created by him, your soul already knows it.”

- via “The Inner Apologetic – Jesus Creed“

It’s interesting that Scot finds the idea to be one that he has “never seen a full scale discussion on”, because for me it’s certainly an idea that I feel like I’ve absorbed rather than been taught directly. And in many ways I’ve almost taken it as self-evident – it is almost another way of describing the “God-shaped hole” of yesteryear’s evangelistic tracts. From the Jesus Creed post again:

“How far can we go with this inner apologetic? How far will the inner apologetic lead us? Is there something written into the fabric of every human being that God exists and that we can only find genuine rest/happiness in that God?”

Interesting thoughts, I thought. Just putting it out there really.