The power of ‘Dunno, what do you reckon?’

What should we do when confronted with difficult questions about the faith?

For many Christians the fear of encountering such questions keeps them from being public about their Christianity, but such fears needn’t paralyse us. Here are two ways of engaging even when you don’t know ‘The Answer’.

‘Dunno!’

Before he converted from Buddhism, Ellis Potter had many long conversations with Francis Schaeffer. Potter now pinpoints one answer from Schaeffer that had more effect than any other: ‘I don’t know.’ It was Schaeffer’s ‘I don’t know’s that gave weight to the other things Schaeffer said with certainty.