A Strategy For Teaching Apologetics To Youth
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- A simple strategy that anyone can do to help prepare the church to face skeptical challenges and be ready to outreach to an unbelieving world. I've found these strategies to be effective. Integrating apologetics into normal church services is easy. Here is how to do it and some resources that will help!
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Archaeology Study Bible (easy to incorporate into vs by vs messages) amzn.to/2MgSiht
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I’m about to be a freshman in college, and this is the most helpful and needed video I’ve found like ever ever ever. Both my older siblings walked away from the faith when they hit the college years and I thank God for keeping me. While trying to share the gospel with my brother he hit me with a ton of questions and objections like all these mentioned in the video and more. I just didn’t know how to answer him, so I just cried and hugged him. I wish I would’ve watched this before. God has used it, though, as a motivator for me to learn apologetics and be able to have the answers next time! I cannot tell you how grateful I am for your online ministry, Mike Winger. All your amazing content is blessing the Church for real. God bless you, brother! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am just a high school student, who wanted to teach apologetics, I would have lead with bugs just like the bombardier beetle. I would have never touched challenges like these. Thanks for the help, I have now been asked to teach a Bible class of 6th graders about apologetics!
More Churches need to do this!
Will apologetics stop the youth from leaving Christianity?
@@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10 some of them
@@yunusahmed2940 Maybe some of them will realize things are more complicated then they first thought. Sometimes apologetics causes doubt.
@Skeptical Mantis CHANNEL 10
I think it's better people understand the basis for their faith instead of just trusting their parents or friends
Mike's an awesome youth pastor.
Wow your church, and youth are incredibly blessed to have you bringing the foundations and truth!
Thank you for this info. Shared it with my young adult children, all believers. This will give them more to take to their skeptical peers!
I'm so blessed by this channel. God bless you, sir. May many more lives be transformed through your ministry. Love from South Africa.
You are a great encourager and defender of the faith. Thank you for your hard work.
Love teaching our students apologetics. Thanks as always for being a great resources.
Another super helpful video. I have the older copy of Evidence... so want to get the newer version. The other books look great too and want to look into those. Thanks brother.
This is a great video! Still stands up to the test of time.
As for why people repeat the same arguments over and over, Bonhoffer (Pastor who plotted to assassinate Hitler) make an excellent point on this stupidity or scripturally, foolishness. It doesn't seem you're arguing with the person themselves, but ideas and slogans they've been programmed to regurgitate. The person is enslaved to something akin to a DIFFERENT social contagion to keep the theme. Regarding some issues, they simply refuse to think and only repeat what they've been told.
An easy demonstration for this is politics, especially now when it has become so blatantly polarized. But it's always been so.
Please share more about youth ministry! This was so useful
Fantastic video! I started watching your videos a couple of summers ago because I feel that the teachings of my church are lacking, and I have gained so much knowledge and have stronger faith than ever. I recommend your work to friends from school (college) frequently. Kepp up the great work.
Hey brother, can you please pray for me? I’ve been going through depression and I don’t know what to do or think since I am a follower of Jesus Christ.
I'm praying for you now Nate. I'd also like to encourage you to keep doing good things no matter how you are feeling, to keep seeking the Lord and to wait on the Lord to renew your strength.
Mike Winger thank you so much! You are a true blessing!
Nate Rivera Isaiah 61.3 nkjv 'Spirit of heaviness' may be your problem.
This is an older video and I haven't browsed the full comments. I may be repeating someone else. Even so, I wanted to respond to a particular idea you mentioned. You said the inoculation is effective "specifically against that virus." In that, the inoculation is better than nothing. However, an inoculation that is only effective against a single virus is less effective than teaching someone good health habits that will reduce their likelihood for contracting any disease and increase their overall ability to fight a disease whether they've specifically been inoculated or not.
Canned answers are inoculations, but the "disease" develops beyond the capacity of the canned answers to address. If all a pastor/church/etc. can do is provide the canned answers, it's better than nothing. However, the confidence provided can potentially be detrimental (just like telling someone a flu shot protects them can make them less cautious around others) and make them more susceptible to other "diseases." Whenever possible, provide not just the canned answers, but the understanding of why the answers work, why the challenges fail, and what the specific relationship between them is. Don't just teach "this is how X is wrong," teach "this is how you determine whether X is correct." Borrowing from an unknown source "Don't just teach people what to think, teach people how to think."
Great points!
The problem that causes many to fall away is foolishness, unable or unwilling to be instructed. They don't seek questions, answers, they don't study the word nor ask God for understanding.
Thank you for this. I'm pretty sure the Holy Spirit has pressed this on my heart for a while now. The kids in my country, and definitely my church, aren't learning this anywhere. I want my church to start teaching apologetics to both parents and kids and if the model works, hopefully it can be used by other churches.
Love from South Africa ❤
Yesss!!! Thanks so much Pastor Mike. Perfect. 👍🏼 Just beginning to teach apologetics in my church. Sick and tired of seeing young people say "Duh. I'm an agnostic. Duh."
Hey Mike I have been listening to you for a that last few months. Great content. So far I am very happy to see that you are the most sound doctrinal teacher on the Tube. I have been answering objections for a few years and I have been preparing my 15 year old son for college. So this is really cool. Keep up the good work.
This is fabulous Mike! Thank you so much for sharing this. As a high school coach and leader it is critical to understand our faith and to know what the Bible says so that we can disciple others.
Hey Mike, just about to do an apologetics life group. Thanks for this video.
thank you Mike!
That conversation with Doug was....interesting
Wonderful talk. You are so right. Young people need to be prepared.
mike you may know this already but lots of teens probably watch your content. i started watching you at 14 !
Thank you!
Hey Mike! Saw both of your science seminars at Hume Lake! Love your channel and your work! Keep it up! :)
Awesome! Thanks
Another awesome video Mike.
Thank you for the great work you're doing. May God continue to bless your ministry.
Thanks so much, this is really helpful.
I want to recommend to our youth minister. In fact, I'm sort of thinking that the entire church needs this.
awsome info.
been following a while now!.
really practical keep up the good work for the kingdom
May God Bless you and your service.
Thanks, Mike.
This is one of the most important videos you have done!!!
Excellent advice. Thanks Mike!
Good video Mike, very important teachings in todays world, I always like to add more information to my arsenal for evangelizing. I was in awe of just how much proof is out there for the truth of the bible as I came to faith, it is defendable historically, prophetically, scientifically, morally and so on. Thanks again and God Bless!
TheSkullReviews
Where's the "proof" that a man rose from the dead?
I'd really like to see it.
I'm glad you asked, there is proof, eye witness testimony's for one, it is historically known Jesus was put to death publicly, speared to confirm it, then he was seen alive by a lot of people 3 days later, the apostles, the women, over 500 people and even a known enemy to the early Christians Saul who would later be better known as Paul. The letters Paul wrote to the churches were done at a time when everyone would have known it was fake if this hadn't taken place, he even states that most of the eye witnesses were still living at the time these letters were read to the early churches.
Even most secular historians who look at the evidence surrounding the resurrection account state the most logical conclusion based on the conviction of the apostles account and their willingness to die for it is that they believed he rose from the dead, before this event occurred the apostles were hiding from fear they would share the same fate as their teacher.
This is just a small sample, I encourage you to really dig into it for yourself, you can look at it from so many vantage points, here is a link to another way to put some perspective on it, this one looks at a few prophecy's czcams.com/video/Ud6pJaLLA8w/video.html
TheSkullReviews
Do you consider the resurrection a miracle?
Yes I consider it the most important event in human history, God himself took on flesh, came as a lowly servant, suffered more than we can know and died to pay for our sins against him, to save his rebellious creation from what we rightfully deserved, his resurrection offers to us unimaginable promises, his spirt, forgiveness, mercy, everlasting life, a kingdom, true love and so much more.
TheSkullReviews
Do you understand that historians can only ever say what "most likely" happened in the past?
Thank you so much Mike for this video it is awesome I love your videos you do a great job keep on doing it
Going to adding this to our teaching!
3:25 That's meeeeee! :)
Hi Ps. Mike, May I know which playlist is the video nestled under?
Thanks Mike. Really useful strategies.
Awesome video as always!!
Will you be doing more “wisdom in the word” videos? Those have been great to send around since a lot of people I share your videos with may not make the time to watch the longer ones.
Thanks again and God bless!
Austin Avanaki
Honolulu, HI
I hope to make more but it all depends on how busy my schedule is. At the moment it’s pretty busy. Thanks for the feedback and for sharing them!
Keep up the good work Mike!
Will do!
I've shared this video with my pastor. I am currently in talks with him on me preaching on this subject, perhaps at a lighter level -> objective/subjective morality debate. I have been listening and reading apologetics now for a couple of years. A powerful resource, often over looked by many church families. Thanks again.
That’s great! It’s well worth it.
I totally agree. We live in a demanding age. Not only do people need emotional conviction, but also intellectual. Both are equally required. It seems to me that many fellowships only see the importance of emotional support. Thanks again Mike. I have subscribed and I look forward to watching more of your videos.
...just had a thought: It is my hope that I will be some day, producing my own apologetic videos. I feel the best approach being through my rather odd, British sense of humour -> perhaps aimed at a younger audience. I have produced a number of animations in which I have provided the majority of voices. Take a look if you get a chance. Perhaps we could work on something together? I won't be offended if you feel it is not for you:
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I would love to send my 16 year old son to a camp/conference this summer. Can someone recommend one that focuses on apologetics?
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Great video! Re: the stoning for homosexuality, I found an article online awhile back and haven't been able to track it down again, but it compared the OT laws to other ancient legal codes, as well as various OT passages to show that hyperbole was a common method to show the relative severity of a penalty with the assumption that it would be paid off. So for eg the surgeon who killed someone in a medical procedure, the penalty was to have his arm cut off. But that's impractical and in practice he would pay a fine commensurate with that penalty level. It explains why we see adulterers mentioned in OT (they weren't actually stoned...) and there's a passage where it indicates that murder is the one crime where the guilty could not be redeemed by paying a fine; that death charge for that was for real. This seems to fit well with NT recognition that the wages of sin is death but we are redeemed with sufficient payment. Since I'm having trouble finding this article again, are you up on the argument? Does it have credence? It seems credible but I don't want to bring it up to a skeptic if it's been debunked.
I read something similar. I found the Levitical laws were like case laws. Judges would refer to Leviticus when meting out judgment but were not required to.
I also teach the Word of God buy the Holy Spirit, and you can't do anything without it, Read God word for your self. God is real, not only read it the BibleI study it, I have seen God move in my life and others, I study with CJF, Miniature, if what someone is teaching God word it should be coming out of the Scripture.
Exodus 11:4-5
About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.
Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
Here 5 years later, do they claim 50,000 denominations??
Hey Mike, I met you at Hume lake this past week, and I had a request for a video: in the show “American Dad” there’s a scene in one of the episodes where a character is making accusations on the Bible, and I would love it if you watched the scene and made a video responding to the points made. Thanks, and keep up the amazing work!
I haven’t seen the show. Perhaps you could send me the link so I could see what you are referring to. It’s ok to post it here.
Mike Winger I mostly just want a video on Noah’s ark and the skepticism around how it could fit so many animals, but something on how people lived to be 900+ years old would be awesome too. Thanks!
Hey Mike, do you have resources we could print about apologetics? Are you thinking of updating on this topic with a new video?
Pastor Mike seems like a lovely guy, and he is manifestly sincere, but most of what he has to say is a load of nonsense, and worse, what he has to say will have little on no traction if the person he is trying to ‘inoculate’ is faced with a sceptic who knows what they’re talking about. Mike’s sideways shuffle on the question, as he phrased it, “Shouldn’t a sincere Buddhist or Hindu go to heaven?” is a case in point. His phrasing is benign, and I presume that’s no accident. The question could be more fairly asked, “Should a sincere Buddhist or Hindu who has lived an otherwise blameless life spend eternity being tortured in a lake of fire solely because they followed the religion of their parents and their community?” Mike goes off into some drooling irrelevant nonsense about how Adolf Hitler and suicide bombers were or are sincere, and we all really need Jesus, and he never answers the underlying question - which an knowledgeable atheist will almost certainly pose to Mike’s hypothetical young Christian college freshman - to wit, “would a loving and fair god impose an infinite punishment on someone who committed a finite transgression?” Mike doesn’t answer this question, and in fact ducks it altogether, even though he clearly knows that is the real question.
His ducking of the slavery question is similarly sly; he comes up with one of verses from the Bible that would seem to imply that God and Moses, and thus the Bible, condemn slavery, when that is contrary to the truth - read Ephesians 6:5-8, Leviticus 25:44-46, Exodus 21:20-21 (a charming passage on how badly you may beat a slave); and my favorite, Numbers 31:17-18, where Moses directs his war captains to kill all the male children of the Midianites and the women who had had sex, but to keep the virgin females for themselves. Charming. Mike seems to have missed these passages, where the Bible clearly approves of slavery, sometimes very nasty forms of slavery.
These sorts of problems crop up throughout. Mike shoots down easy, carefully phrased strawman questions, and doesn’t confront the tough ones, because he has no real answers.
Mike would I be able to put this video on my channel which is about apologetics to youth and give you credit in it? I just started.
Are you still a youth pastor?
"When critics ask" seems to only be hardcover and more than I want to spend (4 times the cost of skeptics). Do you have an affiliate link to a paperback that I just can't find. I'm guessing not.
eBay is cheaper and hardbacks available
The Reasonable Faith App! William Lane Craig's ministry. His 'Defenders' class is an unparalleled free resource.
I fully agree!
To the skeptic (professor or whatever)....If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian? If their answer is, No! their objection is not really about Christianity not being true.
This video should be titled
"How to use the same amount of skepticism on your own God belief as you do on the other religions and God's you reject"
Hi Mike, I don't expect a single video comment to change your mind because you're deeply invested in your mission ... but there may be a time when you realize the suspicious changes made to Torah to prove Jesus ... as you say, "Greek words make up your New Testament."
I am a Noahide, a believer in God and a challenged follower of Torah. The Jewish mission is not done nor usurped. We gentiles can participate or get in the way for there's no other way to interpret God's eternal word except as eternal. True, Levitical law was not meant for Gentiles but for Israelites in Israel otherwise they can't have a Holy nation ... and they have great struggles getting there, as God said they would.
How we KNOW the Messiah hasn't arrived yet is proven in this video and all similar videos that are still trying to prove/defend Jesus. The Bible says with the coming of Messiah the entire world will be filled with the knowledge of God ... and that hasn't happened and won't happen by argument and/or scriptural sleight-of-hand.
We're living in the End of Days ... but all we know is the (unnamed) Messiah will be at minimum, a Torah-observant married Jewish man with a family.
I have never encountered any evidence that suggests the existence of a god. I will therefore continue to suspend any acknowledgment as to the existence of gods until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. It is natural, rational, and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstantiated claims, especially extraordinarily ones.
NOW, you are about to witness actual attacks!
what would you consider evidence?
@@dtphenom
Not the op, but the funny thing is that he has provided us his testimony that he has "never encountered any evidence" and expects us to take his word for it that he has, presumably, carefully and without bias given objective consideration to what people have presented as evidence to him.
Based only on his written testimony.
Yet the written records, experiences of beleivers and observations of Christian Scientists who are experts in their field, their Testimony is deemed insufficient evidence because it is only witness testimony. 🤷♂
Unsubscribed for pronouncing Z as "Zed." Now, I can't back this up, like, Biblically or whatever but I just can't help but feel it's wrong. ;)
Great Video Mike! Thanks again for your ministry. I appreciate that you included a brief collection of reference works at the end of the video. I wanted to share with you a Biblical worldview curriculum that we use at the school I use to work at as our capstone Bible course. It is called Understanding the Times and is published by Summit Ministries. If you're not already familiar with it I definitely think it could be an asset to your church or maybe even youth leaders. You can check it out at www.summit.org
It saddens me to say this, I think that the church, both collectively and individually ( I also include myself ) to teach and be taught apologetic's. This is the part that makes me feel sad 😭😭 There are 8 Billion people that are alive on this planet Earth and less than 5% are claiming to be the Bride of Ye-hua Ha-Massiach ( Je-us Chr-st )🕎🌏🌍🌎✝️
Thank you!