Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig. For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org.

Today, we reach something of a milestone. We come to the end of our Defender's course. It's taken us about seven years to get to this point, but now we cross the

finish line. So it's with a sense of nostalgia as well as satisfaction that we finally reach

the end of our course. In the final two lessons, I want to say a few words about the class by way of

reflection and retrospect as we close. The very first purpose of the Defender's class,

if you look at our purpose statement, is the following. To train Christians to understand,

articulate, and defend basic Christian truths. All three of those verbs are important. First,

to understand Christian truth. We want to have a grasp as profound as we can of Christian

doctrine, what the Christian world and life view teaches. So in this class, we've tried to explain and

elucidate various concepts that underlie the Christian faith. We've surveyed the

different views that the Christian Church has upon these various Christian doctrines. If anything,

I hope that this class has opened your mind to the diversity of perspectives that are represented in contemporary

and historical Christianity on these different doctrines.

But it's also important that we not merely understand these doctrines, but that we are also able to articulate them.

We want to be able to explain them clearly.

In this class, I've tried to show you how to express these doctrines in an accurate way that

will communicate them to the people that you want to talk with.

I hope that some of you will take the opportunity to become teachers yourselves

and to lead a Bible study group or a Sunday school class where you will be teaching this material to others.

Finally, we've aimed also to defend these doctrines. As we've surveyed Christian doctrine from the

doctrine of Revelation to the doctrine of the last things, we've looked at how one might

defend these doctrines, what arguments and evidence might be given in support of these various

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