Day 5 - A Game Plan for Communicating and Defending Your Faith
Session #5
Q-1 What do you think of the idea of leaving a stone in someone’s shoe? Does it remove some the stress/pressure associated with talking to nonbelievers about Christianity?
Can you think of any instances in the past when you passed up a chance to put a stone in someone’s shoe because you felt the pressure of closing the deal (leading that person(s) to Christ right then and there)?
Can you think of any instances in the past when you passed up a chance to put a stone in someone’s shoe because you felt the pressure of closing the deal (leading that person(s) to Christ right then and there)?
Q-2 Use the first element of the Columbo tactic -- What do you mean by that? -- to respond to the following objections:
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.
Q-3 Use the second element of the Columbo tactic -- How did you come to that conclusion? -- to respond to the following objections:
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.
Q-4 Use the third element of the Columbo tactic -- Lead to an important point or insight. -- to respond to the following objections:
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.
- I don’t believe in God; I believe in evolution.
- I don’t have a worldview.
- I believe in science, not some man made mythology.
- I can’t believe in a God with so much evil in the world.
- There is not one shred of evidence for the existence God.
- The Bible is just a bunch of man-made stories that have been changed numerous times throughout History.
- I don’t need some book to tell me how to be a good person.
- Christians are intolerant and bigoted.
- The Bible condones slavery and genocide.
- All religions are basically the same.