apologetics is spelt right btw Chris. I do agree with you in this post. I think where we might differ though is on the right way to tell others about any experience of God that we might have had. I have doubted a lot, and still do, about all sorts of aspects of faith. God I have rarely doubted although I have this feeling that He has doubted me.
People who say that they have never had experience of God speak from a perspective which is far more complicated than the way they express it, just as I sense that people who speak a lot about God also over-simplify. I have this problem with 'bible-bashers' and it's hard to explain quite why except perhaps that they speak from a position of strength to people who are in a position of weakness and I always instinctively side with the guy in the weak place and want to take his point of view. I also think that the Christian view of God tends to downplay the more difficult aspects of our relationship with God which can especially grate with those who are outside the church and see life through a different lense. Everyone needs to feel that they have some sort of handle on truth however incomplete that may be.
People respond universally to kindness, generosity and compassion because these are things of God and they speak directly to every human heart. But words about God are a different matter because of the way in which such words are coloured by experience. Words are like smells I think: they invoke a past and the past experience that people have had of the word 'God' is not at all the same as the past experience that people may have had of the living God who comes to us so often in complete disguise. The task of the pastor (and we are all pastors in this way) is, I think, to tie back together people's experience of the living God with the language of God. Language alone cannot do this.
People also respond universally to honesty when they hear it which brings me back to the need to be wholely three-dimensional about our own struggles with God. Spin is not enough. Also of course we bear witness far less by what we say than by what we do. I think the gospel bears this out over and over.
I still think that it's one of the most important things for the very future of mankind to understand that the limitations of language DO extend to religious language and the only way forward for us in a 'multi-everything' world is to remember just how many different ways of perceiving the same world (and the same God) there may actually be.
This post is another overkill I suspect. It's something that preoccupies me about the nature of the church generally rather than to you particularly Chris.