The passing of apologetics

Ravi Zacharias 1946 - 2020

https://www.rzim.org/read/rzim-updates/ravi-zacharias-obituary


Nabeel Qureshi 1983 - 2017

https://www.rzim.org/read/rzim-global/nabeel-qureshi-1983-2017


RZIM’s CEO, Sarah Davis, shares this reflection on her father:⠀
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On January 4, my dad recited a stanza from this hymn from the late Richard Baxter (1615-1691):

“Lord, it belongs not to my care⠀
Whether I die or live;⠀
To love and serve Thee is my share,⠀
And this Thy grace must give.⠀
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If life be long, I will be glad,⠀
That I may long obey;⠀
If short, yet why should I be sad⠀
To welcome endless day?⠀
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Christ leads me through no darker rooms⠀
Than He went through before;⠀
He that unto God’s kingdom comes⠀
Must enter by this door.⠀
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Come Lord, when grace hath made me meet⠀
Thy blessed face to see;⠀
For if Thy work on earth be sweet⠀
What will thy glory be?⠀
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Then I shall end my sad complaints⠀
And weary sinful days,⠀
And join with the triumphant saints⠀
That sing my Savior’s praise.⠀
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My knowledge of that life is small,⠀
The eye of faith is dim;⠀
But ‘tis enough that Christ knows all,⠀
And I shall be with Him.”

None of us could have imagined just two months after reciting that last stanza that my dad would learn he had cancer and he would experience the realization of this more than 300-year-old hymn so soon. Today we affirm, as my dad recited and Baxter penned, “But ‘tis enough that Christ knows all, and I shall be with Him.” My dad, at 74, has “joined with the triumphant saints that sing [his] Savior’s praise.” We who knew and loved him celebrate his life, and more importantly, his Savior.⠀
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It was his Savior, Jesus Christ, that my dad always wanted most to talk about. Even in his final days, until he lacked the energy and breath to speak, he turned every conversation to Jesus and what the Lord had done. He perpetually marveled that God took a seventeen-year-old skeptic, defeated in hopelessness and unbelief, and called him into a life of glorious hope and belief in the truth of Scripture—a message he would carry across the globe for 48 years... ⠀