What You'll Learn:
Plenty of Christians encounter intellectual challenges to their faith and feel like deer in the headlights as they seek to elucidate their faith in Jesus and clarify misunderstandings about the faith they’ve embraced. In Tactics, philosopher and apologist Greg Koukl seeks to provide some tools that allow Christians to engage criticisms more thoughtfully and winsomely.
Key Insights:
- Defending the faith is more akin to the art of diplomacy than the art of warfare.
- Whatever our misgivings about conflict, Scripture is replete with stories of people reasoning and discussing in hopes of pointing people to truth.
- Asking questions in an unthreatening way is one of the best ways to find the heart of someone’s beliefs.
- If you sense someone’s question has set you up for failure, reformulate the question and answer that one.
- Skeptics save you the hard work of deconstructing their beliefs when their beliefs destroy themselves.
- Give people’s ideas a test landing on the runway of reality to see how they hold up.
- Christian jargon often fails to resonate within the church, so stop expecting it to resonate with a skeptic.
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