With the direction that our culture is going, it’s no surprise that students raised in a Christian home for most or all of their lives are leaving the faith once they go to college. Young people in the church have been told to “just have faith” their entire lives.
But what happens when social media provides them with what seems to be good reasons to believe that God doesn’t exist? Who will they listen to after a while? After all, most high school and college students spend more time on social media a week than they do at church. What’s going to happen when they don’t have the answers they need because their church told them that they shouldn’t ask questions? The responsibility to equip our students with answers to intellectually ground their faith falls on the church and the parents.
Today, Stand to Reason’s Tim Barnett joins the show once more, and we’ll discuss engaging the minds of our students, what that looks like, and some ways to start doing it, so parents, pastors, youth pastors, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who has some influence over students in our churches listen up because this one is for you.
Timestamps:
Why is this relevant? (0:30)
The TRAIN Acronym (2:04)
Test (2:06)
Require more from our students (6:20)
Arm them with the truth, and teach them to defend it (12:22)
Involve them in the battlefield of ideas (21:31)
Nurture their wounds (24:10)
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Additional Resources Mentioned (worth checking out!)
Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig
Tactics by Greg Koukl
Defending Christianity Podcast: https://www.defendingchristianitypodcast.org
DC Blog: https://defendingchristianityblog.org/blog/
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