Five Ways To Make God Known At School This Year

Below are five ways to make God known this next school year – all of them are important. When one of them is missing, the witness to the truth of Christ suffers.

1. Doing your school work to the best of your ability shows the excellence and greatness of God.

2. Being a young man or young woman of integrity shows the integrity and holiness of God.

3. The love you show to students in your classes, in the hallway, at lunch, during sports, at band practice, etc.  shows the love of God.

4. The way you handle money shows the value of God compared to other things.

5. The spoken message you give to the reality of Jesus Christ shows the doorway to all these things in your life and their possibility in the lives of others.

How Can I Answer Those Opposed to Christianity? The Columbo Tactic

"The belief in God is irrational."  "The Bible is full of errors."  "It is ridiculous to believe that Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into heaven."  How can you handle questions like this?  One way to help steer a conversation in a positive direction is to use The Columbo Tactic.

"The key to the Columbo tactic is that the Christian goes on the offensive in a disarming way with carefully selected questions to productively advance the conversation. If you hit a roadblock when witnessing, ask a good question. There are three basic ways to use the Columbo tactic that can tame the most belligerent critic, each launched by a different question. Three uses, three questions:


1. To gain information and stay out of the "hot seat" - "What do you mean by that?"

2. To reverse the burden of proof - "Now how did you come to that conclusion?"

3. To indirectly exploit a weakness or a flaw in someone's views - "Have you considered...(then finish the sentence by offering an alternative view that gently challenges his/her beliefs, possibly exposing a point of weaknesss you uncovered in the answers to your first two questions. For example, "Have you ever considered that the existence of evil is actually evidence FOR the existence of God, not against it?")

This quote was taken from Greg Koukl's Ambassador Basic Curriculum, "Tactics in Defending the Faith" which can be obtained at his website, http://www.str.org/.  Hopefully this will can serve you as you seek to be a faithful of our Lord Jesus Christ.

-Ryan

How Should I Share My Faith?

When we share should we share our personal testimony or the Gospel?  What do people need to hear?  The content of what we say to unbelievers really does matter.