“How we answer the question and how we wrestle with the question and dialogue about a question is often every bit as important as the answer that we give.”
“Non-Christians are not our enemies! They are loved by God. Satan is our enemy, and we ought to keep that in mind.”
“Apologetics and evangelism these days are much more of a process than an event.”
“Some intellectual doubts that are expressed by people are really smokescreens that are hiding psychological barriers to God.”
“I think there’s a connection between the fact that we have a rise of fatherless families in America and we have a rise in spiritual skepticism.”
“A story is sometimes a powerful as a statistic.”
“We don’t have to pretend that we’re smarter than we really are.”
“We can relax in the fact that the Holy Spirit is superintending all that takes place…We’re not in this alone.”
“We don’t want to win the argument and lose the person.”
“Often we short-circuit things when we jump in too quickly to give the five-point sermon…We want to give answers as they’re appropriate, but sometimes it’s more appropriate to befriend people and to dig deeper.”
“We’re telling stories from the Bible, but not educating kids on why we can trust the Bible. And the result is we get nice kids who aren’t grounded in the truth of Christianity.”
“Our kids and our grandkids are going to be challenged with this stuff. We need to prepare them. If not, my goodness, it’s like sending someone off to war and not giving them a gun.”
Mentioned in the Show by Lee Strobel
Abdu Murray
The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
The Case for Christ film on Netflix
The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
David Kinnaman
Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, Paul Vitz
Jay Warner Wallace
“Josh Harris Says He’s ‘fallen away’ From Faith”
“Hillsong’s Marty Sampson Says He’s Losing His Faith and He’s Not Bothered”
Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics
Making Your Case for Christ Study Guide: An Action Plan for Sharing What You Believe and Why, Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg
Nancy Pearcey
Natasha Crain
Outreach Magazine
Sean McDowell
Seeker Small Groups: Engaging Spiritual Seekers in Life-Changing Discussions, Gary Poole
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