Showing results for "Persuasion" in Christianity

In the post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open to, interested in, and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. The urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade - to make a convincing case for the Gospel to people who are not interested in it.

For many Christians who've tried their hands at evangelism or have had to defend their faith, it can feel like doing PR work for God—limiting ourselves to a series of strategies and tactics. In The Faithful Apologist, Scott Oliphint provides a foundation for Christians to explain their faith in a welcoming manner that avoids any burden to "sell" Christianity to non-Christians. Drawing as much from the rich tradition of Western apologetics as from the wisdom of effective communication, this book bridges the gap between sharing the truth of our faith and the art of persuasion.

In this short but fun book, Douglas Wilson gives us several fictional dialogues in which worldviews collide with an honesty and clarity that we rarely see in the real world. This book includes a wide array of positions (feminism, agnosticism, higher criticism, pantheism, Roman Catholicism), but all are given their hearing and put into conflict with the truths of Biblical Christianity.

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) preached “as a dying man to dying men.” He was devoted to God and was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Best known as the minister of Kidderminster in England, his love for God and others resulted in practically the entire town of Kidderminster turning to Jesus during Baxter’s ministry there.

Having been brought up in orthodox Christianity (LDS) practically every choice we made in our life was filtered through that lens, for better or for worse. Join us as we share our story, and discuss many taboo topics that havecreated trauma in our life over the last 16 years, topics like: Who, when, where and why we got married; pornography use; infidelity; masturbation; unfulfilling sexual intimacy; who in our family should work and who should stay home; wanting out but feeling stuck; and so much more! We hope by sharing our story we can offer soothing to others that have suffered trauma as ...

Rahab was a young woman of Jericho who, at the time the children of Israel first approached the Promised Land thousands of years ago, was gainfully employed in a certain high-demand section of the hospitality industry. She was, as Joshua 2:1 tastefully puts it, a "harlot". Here are ten humorous but reverent essays on female heroes of the Scriptures to enjoy. And not necessarily the ones you might expect!