Do your children have a rock solid confidence that what the Bible teaches is really true?

Can they support that?

Do they have the evidence to back up that belief?

Here's Detective J. Warner Wallace.

Ask somebody who's a freshman in college

why you walked away from the church.

They will almost always point to about 12, 13 years of

age as that point at which they first started to have unanswered questions.

If most of your students are telling you, the reason why they're no longer in is because they've got skepticism which is grounded in intellectual questions, well then maybe it's time for us to start answering their questions.

This is family life today. Our host is the president of family life, Dennis Raney, and I'm Bob

Lapine. What can we do as parents to help our children have a confidence that what the Bible says is really true, and how can

we cultivate that same confidence in our own heart.

Stay with us. And welcome to Family Life today. Thanks for joining us. You know, it occurs to me

that what we've been doing this week as we've been talking about the evidence to

support our faith.

In the last decade or so, that's kind of fallen out of favor.

I'm aware of the fact that people have said you know you never talk anybody into Christianity

you don't just present the facts and then they go okay I'm now convinced and there's been

kind of a movement away from defending the reality of the faith to the point where I'm wondering

if people actually have a basis for what they believe anymore or if they're just accepting

it because they've heard it repeated over and over again.

And Bob, I think one of the reasons why we're watching a generation of young people leave the church

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