Dealing with Doubts - Rethinking Apologetics for the 21st Century, Part 1
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
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Summary
Are you concerned about your kids and grandkids as the world becomes increasingly hostile to Christianity? Did you know a high percentage of youth who grow up in the Church are leaving the faith after high school? And do you increasingly wonder: What do we do? In this program, Chip brings real hope and real answers for anyone concerned about these disturbing trends.
Main Points
Rethinking our communication- Yesterday: Apologetics were about what we believe and why. And it was aimed at answering the skeptic’s questions.
- Today: We need to aim apologetics first and foremost toward believers, especially young people.
- Yesterday: We needed to master facts, data, and history to intellectually prove what we believe is true.
- Today: We need to model a concerned and compassionate life-style that proves that what we believe is actually relevant.
- Yesterday: We needed to win the debate.
- Today: We need to win an audience.
- Yesterday: We communicated on a level playing field that presumed TRUTH was an objective reality.
- Today: We communicate on the shifting sands of TRUTH as a subjective reality.
- Yesterday: The Church and the culture shared a general knowledge of the Bible.
- Today: Both the Church and the world are biblically illiterate.
- Yesterday: Committed Christian men or women were admired.
- Today: Committed Christian men or women have been called “dangerous”.
- Yesterday: We could begin with the truth and then express grace.
- Today: We must begin with grace in order to share the truth.
- Yesterday: The moral climate and the values of major institutions like education, medicine, and the media reinforced our values.
- Today: The moral climate of major institutions challenge and ridicule our our faith.
- The early Church had a living hope. --1 Peter 1:1-3
- They believed they had an inheritance. --1 Peter 1:4, 6
- We need to be sober in our thinking. --1 Peter 1:13-15
- We need to have a faith that is rooted in eternity that leads to living a holy life, which leads to a fervent love for others. --1 Peter 1:22-23
- Get rid of all hypocrisy, get rid of anger, and stop blaming. --1 Peter 2:1-2
- Have lips of praise and encouragement. --1 Peter 2:20-24
- The number one apologetic is your life. It’s a holy life, with an eternal perspective, that’s radically loving. --1 Peter 3:8-9
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you concerned about your children and grandchildren as our world becomes increasingly hostile |
| 0:07.0 | to Christianity? Do you wonder why 70% of our youth are leaving the church five years after high school and what we can do about it? |
| 0:16.0 | If so, stay with me. There's real hope and real answers on the way. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.1 | Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus, |
| 0:33.6 | and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. |
| 0:36.4 | Well, thanks for joining us as we continue our series, |
| 0:38.6 | Dealing with Doubts, Reaffirming Your Personal Faith. For the last couple of programs, Chip and our guest teacher, John Dickerson, |
| 0:43.5 | discussed the heartbreaking trend of Christians deconstructing their faith and what can be done |
| 0:48.8 | to reverse it. Today, Chip will build off that foundation by explaining how to engage in conversations about Jesus and the Bible to draw people into the faith instead of pushing them away. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, there's a ton of great insight to get to, so let's settle in for Chip's talk, rethinking apologetics in the 21st century. |
| 1:07.0 | We are living in a day of a tectonic shift in our culture that has greatly impact the church. |
| 1:14.6 | I don't know about you, but we are living in a day where evil is called good, where good is called evil. |
| 1:21.9 | We're living in a day where bitter is called sweet and sweet is called bitter. |
| 1:26.2 | Darkness is called light and light is called darkness. |
| 1:29.5 | And according to the ancient prophet Isaiah, |
| 1:32.0 | 2,700 years ago, he said, when this happens, |
| 1:36.0 | it brings great, great sorrow. |
| 1:39.0 | I know many of you have to be deeply, deeply concerned |
| 1:42.3 | of what you see happen in the culture |
| 1:44.0 | and also happening in the church. |
| 1:46.0 | We're seeing young people that don't walk with God anymore. We're seeing the moral values in the culture and outside the church rapidly, rapidly change. |
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