Why Biblical Worldview and Apologetics?

“It’s amazing - all these students from Christian backgrounds - the moment they’re in a classroom and their professor says anything, either antagonistically or subtly, about the Bible not being true or Jesus not being the Son of God, or evolution being true and God not being the Creator, it rocks their faith. And many of them never recover.”

“Studies show that of High School students who say they are followers of Jesus and they are engaged in church, between 40-59% will disengage the church during the university years...Studies show that about 30-60% of students are coming back, but that means roughly 40-70% are not. That’s huge!”

J. Warner Wallace is interviewed by Leon Fontaine of the Leon Show and talks about the kinds of answers we typically give when someone asks us, “Why are you a Christian?” Are our answers to this question based on the evidence for Christianity or our emotional experience as Christians? Do our answers matter, and if so, why?

On The One Minute Apologist, Brett discusses how to teach youth apologetics, focusing on three points, including #1 We have to start when they are young.

Too many Christian youth are walking away from their faith in the college years. They need to learn why they believe what they believe. Kim is interviewed by Tony Gurule on Ratio Christi’s Truth Matters TV show and offers parents practical tips on how to be intentional in training up their children in the Christian faith and how to weave apologetics into everyday life.

Ryan Huxley is interviewed by Tony Gurule, Host of Ratio Christi Television’s Truth Matters, about the Christian youth exodus. He discusses studies, causes, and possible solutions. At 19 minutes into the half hour interview he suggests age-specific resources for parents and grandparents, including DeepRoots.

“Christian apologetics is that branch of Christianity that deals with answering any and all critics who oppose or question the revelation of God in Christ and the Bible. It can include studying such subjects as biblical manuscript transmission, philosophy, biology, mathematics, evolution, and logic. But it can also consist of simply giving an answer to a question about Jesus or a Bible passage. The latter case is by far the most common and you don’t have to read a ton of books to do that.”

“The Christian share of the population is down and religious 'nones' have grown across multiple demographic groups...”

“...almost every major branch of Christianity in the United States has lost a significant number of members, Pew found, mainly because millennials are leaving the fold. More than one-third of millennials now say they are unaffiliated with any faith, up 10 percentage points since 2007. The alacrity of their exodus surprises even seasoned experts.”

“There has been a lot of talk recently about why kids leave the church. In the past few years, there have been important books on the subject by authors such David Kinnaman, Kara Powell, and Alex McFarland. These authors, and many others, rightly point out that issues are complex and can involve a number of different factors (moral, volitional, emotional, relational, intellectual, etc.).”