How Apologetics Benefits Parents; Spurgeon on Evangelism; Views of Revelation
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AN IDEA FROM ME
How Does Teaching Apologetics Benefit Parents?
“So, what’s in it for me?” I know you weren’t asking that, but I’m going to answer it anyway. Seeing our children grow in the Lord is beneficial enough. That being said, there are other blessings that we personally reap, when we teach our children apologetics. It is important that we recognize those now. Here are three benefits you receive, when you teach your kids apologetics.
#1: It will strengthen your own faith. In order to teach your kids apologetics, you have to study it for yourself. You will find yourself doing a deep dive into your own faith. Why do you believe the Bible? How do you know the Christian worldview is true? As you uncover the answers to these questions, and the absolute truth of God’s word, your own faith will be reinforced.
#2: It will help transform you into the worldview leader your family needs. Scripture is clear that families follow fathers (1 Co 11:3; Ep 6:4). God has entrusted dads with the duty of making disciples of their own children, which includes teaching them to defend their faith. As you do this more and more, you will find yourself living out the plan of God for your life. What an amazing blessing!
#3: It will draw you closer to the Lord. To study apologetics is to uncover questions about God, and to search out their answers. In the Bible, God promises that those who seek Him will find Him (Je 29:13; Pr 8:17; Mt 7:7). Approach your study of apologetics as a spiritual discipline. Pray and study Scripture, and your teaching will flow out of an ever-increasing love of God.
Source: This is from a talk I gave recently on how Christian parents can teach their children to defend their faith. I will be teaching a course on apologetics for the Hammer & Anvil Society beginning in March. It will be open to all Christian men, via the Hammer & Anvil Society. For more information go here: https://thethink.institute/society.
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A QUOTE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE
“Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
—Charles Spurgeon
Want to get better at evangelism? Check out these articles from The Think Institute: https://thethink.institute/articles/category/Evangelism
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Do you have a view on the Book of Revelation?
If you think Revelation is mainly describing specific events in the future that haven’t happened yet, you are a Futurist.
If you think Revelation is mainly describing specific events that happened in A.D. 67–70, you are a (Partial) Preterist.
If you think Revelation is mainly describing specific events that have been happening between A.D. 95 and now, you are a Historicist.
If you think Revelation mainly describes general themes that happen during the Church age, rather than specific events, you are an Idealist.
So which camp do you fall into? Or are you not sure?
Reply to this email with your response in the next 7 days, and I will write you back.
In Christ,
Joel Settecase
Executive Director
The Think Institute
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