Is Your Church Ready?

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Is Your Church Ready?: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life

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A ministry resource for motivating all Christians to become thoughtful apologists of their faith Although apologetics is as crucial today as it has ever been, the classical model for defending the faith often seems irrelevant to the 21st century where people listen with their eyes and think with their emotions. Is Your Church Ready? Presents a team of highly qualified Christian thinkers—including Ravi Zacharias, John Guest, Jay Budziszewski, Judy Salisbury, Dean Halverson, and Peter Grant—who build a case for the place of apologetics in the local church, home, and school. Using personal examples and illustrations they address: • How to answer objections to Christianity • How to equip children in the home and prepare youth to remain committed to Christ after they leave for college • How to reach international students and the foreign-born Included are discussion questions and a "Church Leaders Resource Guide" to the best books, articles, organizations, and websites on the subject.

Description of Is Your Church Ready?:

A case for the role of church leaders in motivating members to be committed to a thoughtful apologetic defense of the Christian faith that pervades the entire life of the church and impacts the home in raising children who remain committed to Christ even when leaving for college. Companion book to Who Made God? And Answers to Over 100 Other Tough Questions of Faith.

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Are the people in your church overcoming the hurdles of integrating apologetics into their lives? Or is apologetics irrelevant to the twenty-first century, where people listen with their eyes and think with their emotions? Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler marshal a team of highly qualified Christian thinkers who build a case for the place of apologetics in the local church, home, and school. Using personal examples and illustrations, they address needs such as: How should we listen to the real question behind the question? What role should church leaders play in nurturing an apologetic lifestyle? How should pastors use "arrows and swords"? How can parents equip children in the home for apologetics? Why do so many college Christians lose their faith? How can we reach the hearts and minds of internationals? Apologetics today remains as relevant and vital as ever. Properly understood, Christianity integrates every dimension of our humanity -- spiritual, intellectual, emotional, ethical, and social -- and the reasons we provide for our faith must be capable of speaking to all these areas convincingly. Is Your Church Ready? helps you -- especially if you hold a leadership position in the church -- to instill well-balanced apologetics in your church at every level, from the pulpit and in your church's ministries, to the world of work, school, and home in which the members of your church live.Ideal for use with its companion book, Who Made God? -- a handbook of answers to over 100 tough questions commonly asked about Christianity -- this book features contributions from general editor Ravi Zacharias, J. Budziszewski, Peter Grant, John Guest, Dean Halverson, and Judy Salisbury. Chapters conclude with questions for reflection and discussion so the book can be used in group settings. The book also includes a church leader's annotated guide to the best books, articles, organizations, and media resources on apologetics. Is Your Church Ready? will motivate and equip you to help your church become one that, both in word and lifestyle, presents compelling evidence for the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ in the twenty-first century.

Description of Ravi K. Zacharias, author of Is Your Church Ready?:

How do you defend the faith to a generation that hears with its eyes and thinks with its emotions? By adapting classical apologetics to meet today's challenges. John Guest, Judy Salisbury, Zacharias, and others use personal examples to help you address objections to Christianity, equip teens to remain faithful to Christ, reach foreign-born residents, and more. 224 pages, hardcover from Zondervan.