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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

How to Make a "Closing Argument" Persuasively

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner provides helpful tips for those who want to share the Gospel and the truth of Christianity. What important skills can we glean from those who make a "closing argument" for a living? J. Warner provides several insights to help you make the case. 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

0:06.2

hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.

0:09.2

J Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:16.0

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

0:22.0

For more information about Jim's work and the Case for Christianity, please visit

0:26.8

Cold Case Christianity.com.

0:29.9

Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:33.0

Thanks for joining us a cold case Christianity.

0:37.0

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:39.0

We have been talking about how to present the case for Christian. How how I present the gospel to your friends

0:44.8

and family members using the unique skill set the tools that the prosecutors

0:49.5

and attorneys learn while they're presenting a case in front of a jury.

0:53.2

Look, we've talked over the past several weeks about how to develop a more

0:56.9

evidential, a more reasonable Christian faith and all this material comes from my book, Forensic Faith.

1:04.5

The idea here is that we could move from a blind or an unreasonable faith,

1:08.6

which we maybe have held for a lot of our Christian life,

1:12.3

and we could move toward a more reasonable faith that could

1:14.4

be expressed in the public square. One that could actually communicate the truth effectively

1:20.0

to the world around us. Now look in order to do that we're going to have to embrace some

1:24.0

principles that first responders kind of take for granted and that is number one we're

1:28.4

going to have to understand what our duty is to begin with we've already talked

1:31.0

about that we're going to have to understand how to

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