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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Is It Wrong to Evangelize?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Many Christian millennials think it's wrong to evangelize. Dr. Craig offers evaluation.

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0:00.0

It's no love.

0:10.0

Bill, we're up to forget.

0:10.0

Bill were always picking on the poor millennials about what they're up to.

0:15.0

A lot of research apparently is being done on the millennial generation.

0:20.0

Christianity today says that half of millennial Christians say it's wrong to evangelize.

0:26.7

I thought we would look at some of these statistics here that USA Today reports and what the research is saying from the Barna group and maybe you can give us some insight on what it means to evangelize.

0:40.0

Maybe there are reasons that they say they don't think it's right to do it because they have

0:46.8

a mistaken notion of what it means to evangelize.

0:50.8

millennials, this starts out, says it used to be the group that churches and ministries were angling

0:55.5

to evangelize, now all grown up and poised to overtake baby boomers as the largest generation, they're the ones doing the evangelizing, at least

1:05.5

they should be.

1:06.8

But new research from Barnard Group and the creators of the Alpha Course offers some disappointing

1:11.2

news regarding the 20-somethings and 30-somethings, now on deck to carry on the

1:16.5

faith.

1:17.5

Nearly half, 47% of practicing Christian millennials, churchgoers who consider religion an important part of their lives, believe that evangelism is wrong.

1:28.0

They're more than twice as likely as their parents and grandparents, boomers and elders, respectively, to say that it's wrong to share

1:35.3

one's personal beliefs with someone of a different faith and hopes that they will someday

1:40.4

share the same faith.

1:42.1

What do you think about that from First Blush? day share the same faith.

1:42.6

What do you think about that from First Blush?

1:44.8

I'm just shocked.

1:46.3

I hope it's not true.

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