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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...
From the Secular Viewpoint, Nothing You Do Will Ever Matter
Thomas Nagel, NYU Professor: Even if you produce a great work of literature which continues to be read thousands of years from now, eventually the solar system will cool or the universe will wind down and collapse and all trace of your effort will vanish...The problem...
How to Answer a Fool
Guest Post by Jeff Mindler Proverbs 26:4-5 reads, “4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.” This, in its simplest form, is the two-step procedure of the apologetic...
Asking Worldview Questions
Guest post by Jeff Mindler Worldviews are everywhere; we simply cannot avoid them. James Anderson states this regarding worldviews, "Your worldview represents your most fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the universe you inhabit. It reflects how you would...
Christian Worship Doesn’t Just Teach Us How to Think; It Teaches Us How to Love
To be conformed to the image of his Son is not only to think God's thoughts after him but to desire what God desires. That requires the recalibration of our heart-habits and the recapturing of our imagination, which happens when God's Word becomes the orienting center...
Our Emotionalism Has Left Many Christians Intellectually Defenseless
I’m saddened that atheists are so passionate about what they believe that they will read stacks of books in order to define their beliefs, while we are happy to float along the surface with a “Hillsong-deep theology” and call it good. And we wonder why people are...
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