Tackling the Top 5 Objections Young People Have to Christianity | with Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Do young people today reject theism and Christianity for the same reasons as past generations? If you ask the average American college student why they doubt Christianity or God's existence, you're sure to get a range of responses. But are their objections grounded in evidence, reason, and rationality? Or are they allowing their emotions and desires to guide their unbelief?

Evangelizing college students is no easy task, but today's guests have mastered the art of dialoguing with young people who have major questions when it comes to faith, morality, and identity. This week, Frank sits down with the humble father/son duo, Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle of the popular YouTube channel, Give Me an Answer. During the episode, Frank, Cliffe, and Stuart will answer questions like:

What are some of the top objections they get to Christianity and how do they respond?
Why and how did Cliffe and Stuart start doing open-air apologetics on college campuses?
How does atheism contradict the Black Lives Matter movement?
Should depressed teens have the right to commit suicide?
Should Christian parents send their kids to secular colleges and universities?
What are some of the CRAZY (and sometimes frightening) ways that students have responded to their ministry?

As you'll hear throughout this conversation, Cliffe and Stuart take a head, heart, and hands approach when they evangelize on college campuses. This podcast episode is all about showcasing how to present both the love and the truth of Christ without (purposely) offending a potentially hostile audience. We know you're going to appreciate what Cliffe and Stuart have to say, so be sure to subscribe to their YouTube channel and stay tuned for the upcoming midweek podcast episode where Frank will wrap up the conversation with Cliffe and Stuart on how to effectively engage young people through Christian apologetics.

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Grace Community Church in New Canaan, CT

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.7	Is that true?
0:15.5	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.6	They're talked out of it.
0:20.3	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic view.
0:28.0	Welcome to cross-examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen, what are the top, say, five objections that young people have to Christianity today?
0:41.0	And how have those objections changed over the past say 40 years and how can
0:48.0	you address these objections in a clear, unoffensive way.
0:55.0	Well that's what we're going to talk about today because we have two guests who have been
1:00.0	on college campuses for quite a while in fact our older guest has actually been
1:06.4	engaging with young people on beaches on campuses wherever they are since 1980. His name is Cliff
1:17.0	Connectly and his son Stuart is also joining him. They're actually co-pastures at a church in Connecticut and if you go to
1:26.9	Ask Cliff on YouTube you're going to see some amazing interactions that these two gentlemen have with young people on
1:34.9	college campuses. Ask Cliff CLIFE. Go to the YouTube channel you'll see it there and I'm going to start with you
1:44.1	cliff because you've been doing it the longest how did you get involved in going to
1:48.9	college campuses right on the quad and start taking the most skeptical objections to Christianity.
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