The question of elenctics: What have you done with God?
This article by Daniel Holstege explores elenctics—the confrontational questioning central to Christian witness and missions—through the lens of J. H. Bavinck's foundational question: "What have you done with God?" The author argues that every person, whether explicitly religious or secular, has made some response to God's revelation, and this recognition forms the essential starting point for effective evangelism and Christian engagement with unbelievers in the modern world.
Elenctics, an aspect of the mission and witness of the church of Jesus Christ in the world, asks a vital question. "In all elenctics," wrote the Dutch Reformed missiologist J. H. Bavinck, "the concern is always with the all-important question: 'What have you done with God?'"[1] You, man of this world, have done something with God. What have you done with Him? The answer to that question of elenctics points us to one of the important elements of our task in missions and witnessing. In...
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