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3 More Logical Fallacies to Avoid (and How to Tell When Someone Else is Committing Them)
[This post continues the series on Logic and Apologetics begun in previous posts] Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning that superficially seem to be sound, but upon examination are found to be false. The power of logical fallacies is that even after they have been...
3 Logical Fallacies to Avoid (and How to Tell When Someone Else is Committing Them)
[This post continues the short series on Logic and Apologetics posted previously.] So far, we have looked at the basic structure of logic. Errors in the structure of logical arguments are called formal fallacies. For the sake of brevity, we don’t cover them in this...
Using Logic in Apologetics
In a previous post we introduced the basics of logic. Here we see how logic is used in apologetics encounters. When we apply the science of arguments to apologetics, it is clear that the arguments used against Christianity are often stated informally. The informal...
Basic Logic for Apologetics
“Christianity is just not logical!” A friend of mine who serves in Spain began to encounter this objection when he tried to talk about faith in Jesus Christ. He wrote to me and asked how he could respond. To commit your life to something that is illogical is a serious...
Still More Strategies for Effective Apologetic Encounters
This post concludes the three-part series on Strategies for effective apologetic encounters. To see the first two posts in this series click here and here. The sixth way to effectively engage unbelievers with the gospel is to identify assertions when arguments are...
More Strategies for Effective Apologetic Encounters
In the last post we looked at specific ways to take a conversation with an unbeliever to a place of effective engagement about the gospel. In this post we continue to examine those strategies. The third strategy is to look for implicit bias. Implicit bias is another...
Strategies for Effective Apologetic Encounters
“But, what if the person asks me a question I can’t answer? How do I know where to go with the conversation? What if my mind goes blank?” The woman who asked these questions had just sat through one of my weekend conferences, and yet felt at a loss as she contemplated...
Doing Apologetics “within” the Church
Guest Post by Jeff Mindler [Jeff graduated from Lancaster Bible College in 2014 with a B.A. in Biblical Studies, as well as an M.A. in Counseling. He currently works as the Event Coordinator for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals in Lancaster, PA. His wife,...
Distinguishing between Academic and Practical Apologetics (and Why You Should Start with the Practical)
The distinction between academic and practical is not a formal one recognized by most people, but there is a definite difference between apologetics that is designed for an academic environment and that which is focused on engaging people in a one-on-one conversation...
The Importance of Questions when Sharing the Gospel
Apologetics is too often taught as an approach of confrontation--which it is--but a confrontation of monologue, instead of socratic dialogue. This rarely works with an unconcerned or uninterested unbeliever. Start giving your spiel, your pre-packaged sales pitch of...
We Can Learn a Great Deal about Suffering from the Puritans
It's not that we shouldn't talk about our suffering, but we should stop expecting that we won't have any and should also not dilute the term with our petty inconveniences. Carl Trueman explains: First, the Puritans lived in a time before the...
The nature of idolatry and worship
Wow! Here is a piercing explanation of idolatry as a counterfeit to true worship: At the heart of worship is a sense of ‘giving yourself away’ to another. Key to worship then are the questions ‘To whom are you giving yourself away and in what manner are you giving...
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