Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian
About this ebook
All believers are called to make disciples and "give an answer" when objections are raised against the faith. Most Christians want to share and defend their beliefs, but they often feel ill-equipped. They desire to reach friends, family, coworkers, and classmates with the good news of Jesus Christ, but lack confidence and skill. They want to be like Jesus and effectively engage the lost with the powerful truth of the gospel. They just don't know how.
What's needed is a way to simplify apologetics and make it accessible to the average church member who will never study philosophy or science. If every church member was indeed a skilled evangelist, churches would not have to depend on come-and-see events to reach the community, because every member would be practicing the go-and-tell approach Scripture assumes.
Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian simplifies the basic principles of apologetics and provides effective strategies for use in actual encounters with unbelievers. It provides a structure whereby any Christian can engage anyone they meet, move the conversation to spiritual matters, answer objections raised against the Christian faith, and present the gospel of Christ in all its glory and rationality.
About the author
Mark Farnham is Professor of Apologetics at Lancaster Bible College and Capital Seminary in Lancaster, PA. He and his wife of thirty years, Adrienne, originally hail from Connecticut, where they met in high school. Mark began his ministry as senior pastor of a church in New London, CT. He has been teaching apologetics and theology at the college and seminary level since 2002. Mark received his PhD in Apologetics from Westminster Theological Seminary and his ThM in New Testament from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and Adrienne have three married children, three grandchildren, and a granddog, Harvey.
Mark also serves as the Founder and Director of Apologetics for the ChurchT, a local church-training ministry helping the average Christian effectively and confidently defend and share his faith. You can hear his Every Believer Confident podcast on iTunes.
