0:00 Christian Apologetics Is Matter Of Offering A Defense Of Your Faith When People Don’t Agree With You And Ridicule What You Believe Or Challenge What You Say; They Offer Arguments Against It
0:26 The NT Church’s Experiences With Accusations & Ridicule Directed Against Their Religious Convictions & Practices…1Cor1…Christian Opposition & Vilification
1:50 The NT Church’s Experiences In Guarding Against The Wrong Kind Of Positive Acceptance Of What They Were Teaching (Acts 14,15,16)…In Our Day & Age The Christian Faith Continues To See The Same Variety Of Attempts To Oppose It & To Undermine It
2:40 GLB Reflects On His Being Brought To Faith In JESUS & Wanting To Share THE GOSPEL
4:18 GLB Reflects On The Opposition To Christianity In Our Day & Age…WE’RE GETTING HIT FROM ALL ANGLES
7:12 GLB Offers Good News…1Peter3:15 The Scripture Commands ALL Believers To Be Ready To Give ANY MAN A Reason For The Hope Within Us…
7:53 GLB Admonishes Christians Who Would Think That They Can Ignore & Disobey The Command Of 1Peter3:15…eg Christian Obligation: LOVING OUR ENEMIES…
10:24 Peter (A Common Fisherman) Is An Example To Any Believer Who Thinks Themselves Unable To Do Apologetics
11:29 TAKING IT TO THE STREETS! (Apologetics: EVERY CHRISTIAN CAN DO IT!) …GLB Emphasizes Good News Point: With Every Command GOD Gives, We’re Given HIS POWER To Carry It Out Despite Our Feelings!
13:23 The Difference Between Studying The Theory Of Apologetics & Actually Doing It…eg THE EXPERT FIRE FIGHTING THEORIST
15:53 GLB Warns Christians To Not Make These Three (M)istakes In Their Apologetical Approach, And Gives His (R)esponse 1) SUBJECTIVISM 2) RELATIVISM 3) ECLECTICISM
16:54 1) (M) Inner Peace & Confidence Before GOD…Confidence eg, Seeing Elvis At The 7-Eleven (R) You Must Give The Objective Truth Of What The Bible Has To Say
18:23 Subjectivism Illustration: A Mormon’s Use Of Subjectivism With GLB & The Haunting Reality That Christians Use The Same Apologetical Approach (The Low Road Of Personal Testimony Rather Than The High Road Of Objective Truth)
20:58 2) (M) What’s True For You Is Not Necessarily True For Me…(Approaching The Unbeliever As Though They Have “Truth” Apart From The Christian Worldview) (R) There’s No Truth Apart From The Christian Worldview…There’s No Philosophical Neutral Ground (Luke 11:23)
24:18 3) (M) Tolerating Christianity Mixed With Other Philosophies (A Fruit Salad Worldview) (R) JESUS Won’t Compromise & Neither Should You — John 14:6
26:49 SUMMARY: You’re to go out to the streets, present the claims of Jesus Christ, not as subjective, not as relativistic, but as the only way to GOD & is objectively true being able to answer anybody who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you. And you’re to do this without getting into fights with people. You’re to do this in a way that shows the gentleness of CHRIST; and so you need to learn to be very firm and be very good in presenting your arguments but you need to use a kind of boldness that has humility tied to it & a kind of Christian grace that shows the SPIRIT of our SAVIOR.
Apologetics is useless if it is only a great theory discussed by scholars. Dr. Bahnsen demonstrates how all believers-including you-are able to defend the faith “outside the classroom” in response to any person who challenges the truth of Scripture.
