‘CS Lewis of our day’: Tebow, Pence, family pay respects to Ravi Zacharias at memorial service

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Vice President Mike Pence, former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, Pastor Louie Giglio, and others paid their respects to notable Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias at a memorial service Friday.

“He was the C.S. Lewis of our day. Crisscrossed the globe to every Mars Hill he could find to answer skeptics, move obstacles of unbelief, armed with intellect, girded with truth and love,” Pence said at the service, which was held at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pence called Zacharias “a friend” and “a man for all seasons,” a term first used to describe 16th century Christian intellectual and writer Sir Thomas More. 

“God put him at my side at just the right time. The word of wisdom and kindness and encouragement that I’ll never forget,” he said, noting that his death is a “personal loss.”

“In the late Reverend Billy Graham, it’s been observed that God gave us the greatest Evangelist of the 20th century. In Ravi Zacharias, God gave us the greatest Christian apologist of this century.” Continue reading…