The Socratic Club | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 20, 2022
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🗓️ 20 November 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:09.3 | My name is Bill Crowder, and I titled our reading The Socratic Club. |
| 0:15.0 | In 1941, the Socratic Club was established at England's Oxford University. |
| 0:22.2 | It was formed to encourage debate between believers in Jesus and atheists or agnostics. |
| 0:28.9 | Religious debate at a secular university isn't unusual, |
| 0:32.5 | but what is surprising is who chaired the Socratic Club for 15 years, |
| 0:37.2 | the great Christian scholar C.S. Lewis. |
| 0:41.1 | Willing to have his thinking tested, Lewis believed that faith in Christ could stand up to great scrutiny. |
| 0:47.9 | He knew there was credible, rational evidence for believing in Jesus. |
| 0:52.4 | In a sense, Lewis was practicing Peter's advice to believers scattered by persecution when |
| 0:58.4 | he reminded them in 1 Peter 3. |
| 1:01.4 | In your hearts, revere Christ as Lord. |
| 1:04.7 | Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the |
| 1:09.2 | hope that you have, but do this with gentleness |
| 1:12.4 | and respect. |
| 1:15.0 | Peter makes two key points. |
| 1:17.2 | We have good reasons for our hope in Christ, and we're to present our reasoning with |
| 1:21.9 | gentleness and respect. |
| 1:25.0 | Trusting Christ isn't religious escapism or wishful thinking. |
| 1:29.2 | Our faith is grounded in the facts of history, including the resurrection of Jesus |
| 1:33.3 | and the evidence of the creation-bearing witness to its creator. |
| 1:38.4 | As we rest in God's wisdom and the strength of the Spirit, |
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