Music can be a powerful tool when trying to reach others for Christ. We have an example today from a well known author and apologist about the role of music in his own conversion.
Apologist and author Ravi Zacharias spoke to tens of thousands of young adults from around the world at the 2016 Passion Conference, sharing with them how a song written by an American led him to the Bible in the 1960s during his desperate search for the truth.
Speaking at Philips Arena in Atlanta, and live streamed around the world, Zacharias told the crowd that his journey to Christianity began with a series of questions in the 1960s while he was growing up in New Delhi in India.
The three-day conference was hosted by Pastor Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Movement and pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and was attended by students mostly between the age of 18 and 25.
Zacharias said he was in a hospital bed when he listened to Ed Ames’ song, “Who will answer,” on Radio Cylon.
Zacharias said two things amazed him about the song. One, an American sang it and the way the song was worded, especially about who will answer life’s questions.
Zacharias said he soon turned to the Bible, and prayed to Jesus that if He is what He claims to be, then he would do all he can to pursue Him.
He told the crowd, Young people, truth is the most valuable thing in the world and asked, “Does the truth matter to you?”