Review: Expository Apologetics by voddie Baucham

February 21, 2025 Davis Moore

Expository Apologetics by Voddie Baucham Jr.

Life: He was raised by a single mother and only came to know Christ in his college years. Baucham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Christianity and Sociology from Houston Baptist University, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also did some post-graduate work at Oxford. Baucham has taken many controversial takes on contemporary issues such as homosexuality and critical race theory (both of these he discusses in his book, Fault Lines, which we’ve reviewed before).

General info about author: He and his wife Bridget have 9 children and they have lived in Zambia since 2015. Baucham is a pastor, theologian, conference speaker, controversialist, author, husband, and father.

This book, as the title suggests is a book about apologetics. Baucham offers us so many helpful insights into how to defend our faith.

First, within this book, he offers us practical direction. He provides scenarios for us to imagine ourselves in and shows us, with the Bible, how to defend and share our faith.

Another thing would be that everything he argues within this book is from a text of Scripture. Some of the ideas he presents may sound new to us as evangelical American Christians, but every part of his argument is from the Bible. This is reflected by Baucham in his introduction (p. 14)

He also exhorts us Biblically. He reminds us that as Christians, we ought to and need to share and defend our faith with unbelievers. It is not very Christian of us to keep our faith to ourselves. We should be defending it every chance we get!

Baucham also encourages us to use the Bible to form our apologetics. So many tracts and evangelism techniques have been deployed over the last several decades, but the Bible has been choked out. He reminds us that the Bible is the Word of God and should be used to defend The Truth; it is Truth.

And finally, he encourages us to memorize creeds and confessions. They are extremely helpful in knowing what we believe. How can we defend something we don’t know? Things like the Apostles Creed (which many of us may recite every week in church) or the Westminster Confession of Faith are great things to read, study, and memorize.