Our testimony can be a form of apologia, albeit not apologia itself. While our experience does reflect who God is in our lives, the common tendency when sharing is to let experience represent God in all of life. This is a serious matter because this firstly could imply a weak, affectual understanding of God by the believing individual; on another level, it would send a wrong understanding to the listener whose own life, if incongruent with the believer's experience of God (vs knowledge of God and experience in its light), may be unable to reconcile the twain and dismiss Christianity. If we believe God to be the One who is greater than tongue or pen can tell, He would also be up to the challenge for all of life to find its answer in. But this also means that we have to be diligent in studying about God and constantly growing in our relationship with Him — it's a win-win really, that we would grow deeper in Him — and our testimony, whilst "contextualised" to our audience, is still part of a truthful testament to God is and yet provides "theological space" to engage the experience of others.
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