How to Answer Challenges to Your Faith (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Greg Koukl provides concrete ways to take a stand for our beliefs. He focuses especially on issues within the culture that cause most Christians to falter when faced with challenges from non-believers. He trains us to use questions to whittle away arguments and bring God’s truth to light.
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| 0:31.2 | If Christians want to make a bigger impact, they need to get a little bit more education |
| 0:36.1 | about the issues themselves and about some method, I offer one, some need to get a little bit more education about the issues themselves and about |
| 0:38.4 | some method, I offer one, some method that's effective to move forward. And when they do that, |
| 0:44.3 | they are going to see things change. I promise you, they will see things change and they won't |
| 0:48.8 | feel so defeated, especially when they realize that their viewpoint, their view of reality is actually true. |
| 0:57.8 | That's Greg Kokel, and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:02.9 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:05.0 | John, as believers, we're called to share the message of Christ. |
| 1:08.4 | That's the great commission to go and tell people about Jesus. |
| 1:12.9 | And some people struggle with that because maybe their temperament isn't built in such a way |
| 1:19.3 | that they're easily engaging people. |
| 1:21.7 | You might say extrovert introvert. |
| 1:23.4 | I don't know that that always applies, but it's just some of the wiring that we have. |
| 1:28.2 | We're either comfortable or we're not comfortable in talking to people who don't know the Lord. |
| 1:33.5 | We call it being a witness. There's going to be, you know, non-Christians listening. |
| 1:37.8 | So that just really means to profess our faith in Christ to people who don't know about Christ. |
| 1:43.1 | And it's that simple. |
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