Morning all. A good friend of mine, Josh Thorp, is putting on an apologetics event a week on Saturday. It’s going to be on how we view the world, and how this affects the people we want to reach for Christ. I’m sure it’ll be really useful.
Check it out if you’re interested!
Back after it’s own summer vacation, Website of the Week returns with a site dedicated to equipping you in the practical aspects of evangelism…
“Evangelism Explosion is a ministry that trains people how to share their faith in Christ and how to bring people from unbelief to belief. It utilizes a variety of components including prayer, actual on-the-job training where the experienced lead the inexperienced, and the principle of spiritual multiplication.”
The section I found most useful is the Answers to Tough Questions page. Assuming that people you are sharing your faith with have questions (and they will), it takes a systematic look at how to go through the most common problems people have with Christianity. So it starts with broad questions about the nature of Truth before gradually focusing more and more on Christian issues, from the authority of the Bible right down to hypocrites within the church.
The answers it gives are concise and might help you to formulate your own thoughts a bit more so you can feel more equipped to give an answer for the hope that you have (1 Peter 3:15). Clever arguments should never be the main method of evangelism – demonstrating the love and power of God should be – but we neglect a clear knowledge of what (and why) we believe at our peril. So hopefully this site will throw a couple more tools in your evangelism utility belt!
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
And coming in at number 4 in our chart we have an absolute classic from C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity.
If you haven’t read any C.S. Lewis before you are well and truly missing out. As far as I’m concerned the guy’s a genius. God blessed him with both great intellect and the ability to communicate his knowledge to the masses in an extremely accessible manner. As well as Mere Christianity he’s written The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, The Great Divorce to name but a few (and Narnia of course!).
Mere Christianity is, as the name suggests, an unpacking of the fundamentals of Christianity in order to sure up your conviction or to help persuade of its truth. I really love the way Lewis approaches the argument in that he starts in a general manner by looking at the concept of right and wrong and the idea of there being a creator, before gradually honing these basic truths into a convincing arguement for Christianity being the only true expression of them. I particularly enjoyed his discussion on morality and also the way he approaches the subject of time and space.
On a personal level, I’ve found this book to be most useful in apologetics (defending your faith) due to the excellent allegories and pictures that Lewis uses to communicate Biblical truth. It’s a relatively short book as well so I would heartily recommend checking it out!
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