No question that apologetics and the Doctrines of Grace are vital. I certainly did not mean to imply otherwise. I would not know how to explain the Gospel to anyone, much less to a worshipper of an un-sovereign, powerless "god" to be found nowhere in Scripture, without those doctrines.
My point, which I probably didn't make clearly, was that in many if not most cases, the person with a low view of Grace has a low view of Scripture, and hence a low view of its Author, and hence probably is either very new or weak in the Faith, or unregenerate. Hence, the immediate need is most likely conversion.
Apologetics, and the proclamation of sound doctrine, certainly are instruments God can use to draw a person to Himself.
But the goal can't be to win an argument, much as I'd often like to. It must be that God's sovereign will might be done with respect to the individual in question. Hopefully that person's conversion; although in the end it is in God's hands; yet, He ordains the means, as well as the ends.
I'm sorry if I'm still not being entirely clear. I used to be an awful lot better at this.
