Practical Apologetics Introduction

This will be a different kind of apologetics course:

• We will learn the process of:
  • Knowing the Word
  • Recognizing the evidence that supports the Word
  • Developing skills in the techniques of discussion and logic to convincingly explain the Word, and to refute lies and distortions about it.
• Apologetics covers many disciplines:
  • Science
  • History
  • Philosophy

We will approach this like a bootcamp, where you will learn to:

• Analyze questions and recognize mistakes
• Strengthen both your faith and resolve
• Recognize and protect against attack
• Identify a lost soul vs. an anti-Christian enemy

The world is making everything increasingly political, including faith.

Your faith is the solid foundation you can stand on to protect against common mind-control techniques.

God provides the Rock for your foundation, but you have to do the building.

The goals of the course are:

1. Know yourself
2. Prepare your heart
3. Build your foundation
4. Involve the church
5. Begin with your family
6. Become a spiritual warrior

Reasons to study apologetics:

1. provides an answer to my own questions.
2. helps me recognize bad arguments.
3. forces me to scrutinize my own worldview.
4. reveals the difference between Christianity and today's world views.
5. encourages humility.
6. helps me know why I believe what I believe.
7. strengthens my own faith
8. keeps me from being fooled by false teachers.
9. boosts my confidence to share my faith with others.
10. helps me recognize and address doubts in others.
11. makes a positive impact on future generations.

We don't need a million-dollar apologist. We need a million one-dollar apologists. (J. Warner Wallace)