On Friday morning, Vice President Mike Pence, Tim Tebow, Louie Giglio, Matt Redman, Lecrae and others participated in a memorial service for well-known Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias. Zacharias died on May 19 and was buried in Georgia on May 21. The May 29 memorial service was intended to be a celebration of Zacharias’s life, ministry and legacy.
Vice President Pence started out by noting that Zacharias’s passing came “at a time when so many families around the world are grieving the loss of loved ones.”
Pence then spoke of how important Zacharias’ ministry has been to him personally and to the Christian church as a whole, Fox News reports. Speaking personally of Zacharias, the Vice President said, “God put him at my side at just the right time, with a word of wisdom, kindness and encouragement that I’ll never forget.”
Vice President Pence also put him alongside some of the most well-known Christians of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He said that “In Billy Graham, God gave us the greatest evangelist of this century. In Ravi Zacharias, God gave us the greatest Christian apologist of this century. He was the C.S. Lewis of our times.”
Some of the most moving tributes from the service, which lasted close to two hours, came from Zacharias’s own family. His brother Ramesh told the crowd that “You knew him as an apologist. To…
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