Are You a Wise Apologist (or Just a Wise Guy)?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

There comes a time in every Christian’s life when their faith will be challenged. Apologetics has become a resource for many Christians who have the desire to learn how to defend the faith with confidence. Oftentimes that confidence can morph into contention when people lose sight of the reason why they studied apologetics in the first place. When used properly, apologetics can be a tool used for evangelism. But when the need to win an argument trumps the desire to spread the Gospel, apologetics can quickly become an outlet for friendly fire.
In this midweek podcast episode, guest hosts and CrossExamined speakers Jorge Gil and Dr. John Ferrer guide us through steps we can take to avoid becoming combative apologists. They also touch on the issue of social media and how it has impacted the field of apologetics. Some of the questions addressed in this episode are:

What can and cannot be accomplished through apologetics?

What motivates you to learn apologetics?

Are you loving people through your apologetics?

Has apologetics replaced your devotional life?

Are you spreading truth or hurling truth bombs?

How do we balance truth and grace when defending Christianity?

Defending the faith is a skill that all Christians can be excited about developing as long as we remember the WHY of our defense. Don’t let your passion for apologetics kill your compassion for people!
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.3	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.2	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:17.7	They're talked out of it!
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	Because they've never been talked into it!
0:24.2	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:32.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist Meet with Podcast.
0:37.8	I'm your host, Jorge Hill.
0:39.4	I'm one of the speakers at cross-exemining.org
0:42.6	and I'm here with Dr. John Ferrer.
0:44.6	Another one of our speakers and we're going to be talking about what a apologetics can and cannot do.
0:52.6	We actually focus a lot of our time and resources here at cross-exemining.org
0:58.2	to teach people how to defend the faith.
1:00.7	That's what a apologetics does to give evidence for the faith, for the Christian faith.
1:06.2	But we, as apologies, have also done some things that kind of give us
1:12.2	or put us in a negative light.
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