The role of apologetics

"I have heard so often from people across the country, "You can't argue anyone into the Christian faith." I really hate to be horrible here, but I was argued into the Christian faith. I really was. I had intellectual objections and they were answered, and ... I had no way of saying why I didn't want to become a Christian other than I refused. And ... really ... the role of apologetics ... is to level every objection so that truly the offense of the cross is what's left." (Craig Parton author of "Religion on Trial" and "The Defense Never Rests: A Lawyer's Quest for the Gospel" on the June 6, 2010 edition of the White Horse Inn)