Be Ready Always to Give an Answer - Samuel Jackson

Samuel Jackson, speaking for the first time, brought a challenge to the young people at Listooder. The world around us knows little of the Christ whom we serve. It knows little of the one who loved us and gave Himself or us. It is therefore, as in the words of 1 Peter 3:15, with meekness and with fear that we make ourselves ready. Not ready so that we can judge the unsaved. Not ready so that we can demonstrate how much better we are than they. But ready to give a reason of the hope that lies within us.

And what is that hope? It is the sure and certain knowledge that, despite our failings, despite our fallings, despite our shortcomings, we have redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ, and eternal pardon from all our sin and an everlasting home in heaven. 

1 Peter 3:15 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: