How the Rules of Evidence Can Ready Evangelism – Part 1
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner continues to discuss the practices and principles of good investigators and applies these techniques to the Christian worldview. When juries are asked to evaluate a case, they are instructed in the rules of evidence. In this episode, J. Warner discusses three important evidence instructions: 1. The fact the other side can make a case doesn't mean it's true, 2. Everything has the potential to be used as evidence, and 3. Whoever makes the claim, has the burden of proof. J. Warner demonstrates how a proper understanding of these rules can help you prepare people to hear the case for Christianity. This approach is described in more detail in Forensic Faith: A Homicide Detective Makes the Case for a More Reasonable, Evidential Christian Faith. Be sure to check out Forensic Faith and the accompanying curriculum.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.0 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.0 | His work has been featured on Fox News, |
| 0:14.4 | Court TV, and Dateline. For more information about Jim's work and the case for |
| 0:19.6 | Christianity, please visit coldcase Christianity.com. Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for joining me at Cold Case Christianity. I'm Jay Warner Wallace. Now, in the last few weeks we've been talking a little bit about the nature of |
| 0:35.2 | evidence and how it might help you to get ready to talk to people about the gospel. |
| 0:40.0 | There's a relationship between the rules of evidence and how you might describe them to people |
| 0:44.8 | and how you might also ready them for evangelism, ready them to be ready to hear the gospel message. |
| 0:51.7 | Now I've been talking about this because it's something I wrote |
| 0:53.8 | about quite extensively in a book called Forensic Faith. Now that's a book that is |
| 0:58.9 | the third in a trilogy of books called Case Christianity, God's Crime Scene, and Forensic Faith. |
| 1:04.8 | And in this third book what we're trying to do is demonstrate why and how to develop |
| 1:10.7 | a reasonable evidential Christian faith, especially as we're trying to |
| 1:16.8 | navigate the culture and respond to the culture. And first responders are really |
| 1:21.8 | kind of trained to respond to culture, to be in the world, but not necessarily of the world. |
| 1:28.0 | And there are some attributes of first responders we might want to adopt if we want to also be ready to respond to culture. |
| 1:34.1 | And that's what I've been talking about in this book. Now look I've beginning a lot of |
| 1:38.2 | emails from people who subscribe to the daily post I send out a daily email you can sign up for at the website coldcase Christianity.com |
| 1:46.7 | and that's a good way also to read reply and then respond to me and ask questions and I get some |
| 1:52.1 | questions about the content of our show here in our B TV and the reason why we |
| 1:58.0 | Look we're trying our best to provide resources in 28 minute, 30 minute blocks on our TV show. And it is true that sometimes |
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