Dealing with Doubts - Rethinking Apologetics for the 21st Century, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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Summary
The current moral decline and theological compromise among Christians is no longer concerning – it’s alarming. We see division and false teaching, even in the Church itself. What can those who care do? In this program, Chip explains how can we stand for biblical truth and winsomely communicate, even regarding controversial issues, with love and integrity - just like Jesus did.
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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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 | If you're a Christian, you're between the rock and the hard place when it comes to defending your faith. |
| 0:07.4 | Here's the question. |
| 0:08.7 | How do you help your kids, your friends, and the people you care about know what is really true? |
| 0:14.5 | And do it in a way that's not offensive, but absolutely non-compromising. |
| 0:19.0 | That's today. Stay with me. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.5 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:33.6 | Well, in just a minute, Chip will continue our series dealing with doubts. |
| 0:37.2 | But before we get going, let me encourage you to download his message notes. |
| 0:41.5 | They're a great resource to use while you listen. |
| 0:44.0 | Check them out at Living On The Edge.org, app listeners tap Fill In Notes. |
| 0:49.5 | Well, last time Chip pointed out how society has moved further and further from biblical |
| 0:53.9 | morality. |
| 0:55.0 | So today he'll provide Christians with a game plan to respond to these difficult times with grace and truth. |
| 1:02.0 | If you're ready, here's Chip with part two of his talk, rethinking apologetics in the 21st century. |
| 1:09.0 | Yesterday, the moral climate and the values of major institutions like education, |
| 1:13.9 | medicine, the media, they reinforced our values. I'm a little older than some of you. I remember as a kid |
| 1:21.5 | that, you know, if you got in trouble, you know, at school, your parents found out about it because |
| 1:25.9 | the values of the school were pretty much the same as mom and dad. Today, a high school student cannot get an aspirin but can have an |
| 1:36.1 | abortion without their parents knowing it. The media, the sports, the institutions, the tech |
| 1:43.3 | companies where I live in the Silicon Valley and the greater |
| 1:46.1 | San Francisco Bay area, their values are absolutely antithetical to what historic, traditional, |
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