How the Rules of Evidence Can Ready Evangelism – Part 2
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 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. Possibilities are irrelevant, 2. The more cumulative the case, the more reasonable the conclusion, and 3. Witnesses are reliable unless demonstrated otherwise. 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 J Warner Wallace. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome back to cold case Christianity. I'm Jay Warner Wallace. We have been talking about how to |
| 0:34.1 | prepare our friends and family members to hear the gospel and this is really the |
| 0:39.0 | fourth step that I talk about in a book called Forensic Faith. |
| 0:44.0 | And again, this is a book where we kind of deep dive into four aspects of first responders, |
| 0:49.6 | the work that first responders do. |
| 0:51.8 | In order to help us think about how we can respond to |
| 0:55.4 | culture how can we share what we believe do we know what our duty is do we know |
| 0:59.8 | how to train to get ready to do this do we know how to investigate truth claims and finally do we know how to |
| 1:03.9 | communicate those to others? And we're in that fourth section right now, communicating what is true to other people. |
| 1:11.2 | Now a lot of this is about making sure you're talking to the right other people. Now a lot of this is about making sure you're talking to the right other |
| 1:14.6 | people and that's when I talk about a parallel in jury selection. How do we know which jurors |
| 1:19.8 | are ready to hear the case and can be fair. Understanding that helps us to pick the right jurors |
| 1:25.2 | in our own personal lives, our friends, our coworkers, our family members, and understanding |
| 1:29.6 | that some people aren't ready to hear anything from us in our so anti message that we're |
| 1:34.9 | really going to have a difficult time unless we take certain approaches. |
| 1:37.9 | Now we already talked about all of that in earlier programs that you can find |
| 1:41.4 | either staged on YouTube or in the you'll see them |
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