Ready to Give a Defense: Christian Apologetics and How to Talk Reasonably about Your Faith

Many skeptics claim that Christians are naïve, unintelligent, and gullible people who blindly put their faith in a set of beliefs that aren’t at all supported by rational evidence. Other skeptics say that there’s just not enough evidence out there to persuade any one to embrace the teachings of Jesus. So why even bother? Just embrace your own understanding of spirituality, pick the path that works for you, or don’t… just don’t worry about it. You do you. Skeptics commonly bring objections to the Christian faith that are centered around the existence of God, the exclusivity of the Christian gospel, the inspiration of Scripture, the existence of miracles, and seeming the contradictions in the Biblical text and Christian thought. So are they right? Are Christians naïve, gullible, unintelligent simpletons who blindly place their faith in a set of beliefs for reason at all, besides maybe, wishful thinking? How do we as Christians answer skeptics? How do we have conversations with others who may find our beliefs offensive? And how we can do that with kindness, love, and grace?