How can we tie Evangelism and Apologetics together?

If we want to be able to share our faith, we need to be able to defend our faith. Even though the Bible does not say anything about apologetics specifically, there are many places where it is talked about. I Peter 3:15 talks about how we must always have an answer for the faith we have. The Bible talks about many topics that are associated with apologetics; persuasion, dialogue, discourse, dispute, argue, presenting evidence, and reason with. To be able to do all of these things effectively, we must know scripture. We must use our minds. If we do this, we are loving God with our mind, which He commands us to do. Many people try to do this, but they take an extreme approach. One approach that people take is a defensive one. Christians are too worried about our defenses and our facts. In II Corinthians 10 Paul talks about how we should not be the ones on the defense, but it is the people who do not believe who should be. We are so hung up on our defense that we do not look at exploiting their lie. Another approach that Christians take is a defeatist approach. This person has just given up on the World. They do not see any hope in other people. The last approach is the devotional approach. This approach relies too heavily on personal stories. They do not focus on the scriptures but on their life. In order to correctly defend our faith, we must know when to defend, question, share, and reason. If we want to correctly tie apologetics and evangelism together, Jimmy Williams suggests in his article "Apologetics and Evangelism," that there are five things we should do. First, we must go to people. We must actually go out with the intention to share His Word. The second thing is communicate with people. We must engage them in the conversation. If they do not understand the Word they will never accept it. But, if they do understand, as it says in II Corinthians 5:11, they will be persuaded and accept God. The third thing that has to be done is that we must relate to people. This is a place that I feel we as Christians fail in. We tend to just tell them about God and then leave it at that. If we want non-Christians to accept Christ, we must be relational. We must keep in contact and show the other person that we care about them as an individual. We must also remove the false seeds that have been planted in them. We also have to explain the Gospel. It is very confusing at times and we can not expect them to understand it right away. A major thing we must do is invite them to receive Christ. We can argue and reason until we are blue in the face, but if we do not invite the person to take the first step of faith, they won't do it. After they take the first step, stay with them. Be an encourager for them. Help them dive into the Word. If we do all these things, we will be able to successfully lead someone to Christ, using apologetics.