{"id":95,"date":"2012-10-01T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creationanswers.net\/answersblog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:50:18","slug":"contending-with-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creationanswers.net\/answersblog\/2012\/10\/01\/contending-with-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Contending with Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 29, 2012 I attended a great conference in Dallas called Contending with Christianity’s Critics<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 It was at Watermark Community Church in Dallas (click for Watermark church website<\/a>).\u00a0 It was a great conference.\u00a0 It makes me think about the fact that as Christians we have been given so much but the unbelieving world has no idea what they are lacking.\u00a0Too often Christians have to pursue studying apologetics outside their own church because it is not taught inside the church.\u00a0 Apologetics is thought of as answers to the challenges from nonchristian scholars and atheists.\u00a0 But, usually the skeptics are not really looking for answers, the Christians are.\u00a0 Christians are looking for answers because they’ve heard the skeptics and aren’t sure what to think about what they’ve heard.\u00a0 Christians are sometimes a little rattled by challenging questions from nonchristian scholars.\u00a0 Questions from friends or even kids can be just as challenging also.\u00a0 It is a bit disturbing some of the ideas we hear from our culture today, often proposed deliberately to make people question Christianity.\u00a0 The nonchristian skeptics do need the answers, but it seems to take a miracle to get them to look for the answers or be open enough to seriously consider them.\u00a0 There aren’t many nonchristian skeptics who go to apologetics conferences, though there may be a few.\u00a0 It is the Christians who go to them.\u00a0 It was said that there were over 3,000 attenders at the Contending with Christianity’s Critics conference in Dallas.\u00a0 It was great to see such a\u00a0turn-out.\u00a0 The email I got before the conference said they were sold out.\u00a0 So, we Christians need to find ways to pass on reasons for our faith to nonchristians around us who do not go to where the answers are.<\/p>\n

Today people have become so skeptical of there being any truth people can rely on.\u00a0 But there seems to be a resurgence of interest in apologetics.\u00a0 There is a whole new slate of individuals who are great speakers on apologetics.\u00a0 At the Dallas conference here is a list of the speakers and their topics.<\/p>\n