How Can I Become a Better Christian Case Maker?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
ColdCaseChristianity.com
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What's the key to being an effective apologist today? We need more apologists in the church who can equip and reach people where they are at. In this discussion with Dr. Sean McDowell, J. Warner discusses the best strategies for defending the faith today.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.7 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Chrissian. |
| 0:19.9 | Thanks for joining us at the cold-case Chrissian podcast, I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:23.6 | In this week's podcast, I'm going to play an interview I did with Sean McDowell recently, |
| 0:27.8 | in which we talked about why it's important to be what I've always called a $1 apologist, |
| 0:33.5 | which that's something I've talked about for many years. |
| 0:36.2 | Probably when I first started, I used to argue all the time that you don't need another |
| 0:39.7 | million-dollar apologist. |
| 0:40.7 | And when I say a million-dollar apologist, look, there's no one in apologetics making |
| 0:45.2 | millions of dollars that I'm aware of, okay? |
| 0:48.1 | This is too nichey. |
| 0:50.1 | Chrissian books are only a portion of the book market and only a very small fraction of |
| 0:55.5 | Christian books have anything to do with apologetics. |
| 0:58.2 | But there are people out there who would say, or the apologists in Christendom, that have |
| 1:04.3 | value, great value, they are a million-dollar apologist in terms of their value to us as |
| 1:10.4 | believers, as the church. |
| 1:12.6 | And that's what I'm talking about. |
| 1:14.6 | It turns out that we are all called to make a case for what we believe, and we don't need |
| 1:18.2 | another million-dollar apologist in terms of value. |
| 1:20.8 | We need a million-one-dollar apologist. |
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