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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | If I can shift just a bit, ask about kind of your experience having done this now for decades, what are the changes that have taken place in terms of the issues |
0:16.2 | and non-Christian are raising the ways that you're responding to the issues that |
0:21.8 | are brought to you and yeah talk about the changing |
0:26.1 | environment. Let me say something about how things have not changed because I |
0:30.9 | think that's important. So often we hear it said these apologetic |
0:35.8 | arguments don't work anymore because we live in a postmodern culture in which |
0:42.1 | logic and argumentation are no longer valued. And I think this is a |
0:48.6 | myth that is being perpetrated in our churches by misguided youth pastors. The fact is that I find |
0:58.6 | that secular university students are very keenly interested in a rational approach to these issues and that if you |
1:07.6 | approach the questions rationally by offering arguments for the existence of God, |
1:13.2 | evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, |
1:15.3 | then people respond on that level. |
1:17.9 | I have virtually never have a student stand up |
1:22.0 | in the Q&A time and say your argument is based upon a white male |
1:28.4 | logocentric standards of argument and therefore it's worthless. It just never happens. So I don't |
1:38.6 | buy into the idea that our culture is a wash in relativism that makes these arguments |
1:45.0 | these arguments ineffective. |
1:45.9 | On the contrary, I think that these arguments |
1:47.9 | are extremely effective |
1:49.8 | and we mustn't surrender them to just telling or sharing our narrative and inviting people to |
1:56.6 | participate in it. |
1:58.6 | Having said that I do think that one of the burning issues of our day today would be religious pluralism. |
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