Street Smarts: How to Engage Non-Believers: Greg Koukl Interview

The Becket Cook Show

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In today’s episode, Becket chats with Greg Koukl about his new book, “Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges.” Street Smarts helps Christians better engage in productive conversations with those who challenge their convictions on a variety of issues. A follow-up to Koukl's best-selling Tactics, this book focuses on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations.

Koukl begins by explaining the important difference in evangelism between a harvest approach (reaping) and a gardening approach (sowing). He then provides an overview of the tactical game plan he uses to have fruitful "gardening" conversations with those who are not yet Christians. Subsequent chapters tackle specific areas of challenge that Christians frequently face in discussions "on the street," as it were--in those conversations with friends, family, or critics that believers often avoid because they feel out of their element, vulnerable, or exposed.

Street Smarts equips Christians to handle tough challenges in a straightforward and user-friendly way. It provides the practical tools they need to keep them in the driver's seat of otherwise difficult and discomfiting conversations. It enables them to stand up for Christ in a safe, genial, yet effective way.

Pre-Order Greg Koukl's Book: https://www.zondervan.com/p/street-smarts/

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0:34.0	Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:40.0	Today I have a very special guest.
0:42.0	Greg Kockel.
0:44.4	He is, he, we're going to talk about his new book, Street Smarts.
0:48.8	And the subtitle is, Using Questions to Answer Christianity's toughest challenges.
0:54.8	Greg Kockel holds an MA degrees with honors in both apologetics and philosophy.
1:01.5	He has spoken on more than 80 university campuses and hosted his own
1:05.2	call-end radio talk show for more than 33 years defending
1:09.7	quote Christianity worth thinking about. Greg is the founder and president of Stand to Reason. I was
1:16.8	member if you remember I was part of that Stand to Reason tour I think last two years ago. I can't remember when that was a last year partly last year
1:25.4	where we went to six different cities and and talked to teenagers and preteens and
1:31.8	teenagers and maybe college students I can't remember but anyway it was an amazing time it was an apologetics conference and
1:41.6	he serves as a adjunct professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University.
1:47.2	And he's the author of the book, The Story of Reality and the best-selling book tactics.
1:55.0	And so I'm excited to have Greg Kockel on the show to talk about Street Smarts.
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