The One Change That Saved My Students’ Faith
For more information, read So the Next Generation Will Know: Training Young Christians in a Challenging World (https://amzn.to/2CftJza)
READ: Stop Teaching Young Christians About Their Faith https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/stop-teaching-young-christians-about-their-faith/
J. Warner Wallace, author of Cold-Case Christianity, was interviewed by Bobby Conway (The One Minute Apologist) and discussed the important distinction between “teaching” and “training” when preparing young (and older) Christians. (For more information related to Bobby’s great ministry, visit: http://oneminuteapologist.com/)
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This is why I love AWANA
Not just teaching but there’s very practical application & there are constant competitions where they can fellowship & compete with/angainst others.
Paul reasoned, disputed everyday with opponents. He prepared well beforehand. All the churches I went to don't teach how. I learned for myself from books.
Possibly the biggest criticism I have of the church (and the reason I now attend house churches exclusively) is that almost none of them make any effort whatsoever to actively influence the culture. They don't do evangelism and they don't fight evil social practices like abortion. Their ambitions rarely go beyond protecting the flock from falling away. Didn't they realize that the best way to avoid backsliding is to exercise your faith with positive action?
Every local congregation, every Christian family and indeed every individual, should make time to be out in the culture, engaging the world and defeating the works of the devil.
SCHEDULED. You SCHEDULED an event. It took me awhile to realize that is what you meant when you "calendared" an event. You put it on the calendar, or you scheduled it.
And gosh, I wish I could attend your classes. This is so true.
I’m so with you in this, but also almost in tears in view of the inability or unwillingness of our church leaders to pick up such kind of training. They downplay the necessity and tend to entrench themselves in the sanctuary of our church, hoping that any challenge will soon dissipate. What am I supposed to do, as I’m just one among very few others which point out this necessity? We’re not heard. Ignored.
will apply right away.
I need this and love this! Equipping in action! Loving God, others as ourselves looks like something. Discipleship – faith in action. Out of the stands, in training and on to the field.
God gave me the gift of hearing a pastor (YouTube – never have personally met him) who was so amazed by The Word of God he was teaching from that I began seeing what I never had picked up in my years of sitting at church. God’s Word truly is living and active…I had never before heard a pastor speak so highly of the importance of reading The Bible, and testing everything I heard by The Word of God…he taught me to even test what he was saying from his pulpit. The love and amazement he has for the Bible spoke volumes to me about its value for me. It has changed my life, in that now I love reading God’s word, too. Unfortunately, now when I’m in church, I long to hear from the pulpit how much my Pastor depends on his Bible, how we can trust it, that God has preserved it and uses it to change hearts and minds, that it’s amazing from beginning to end, and I could go on and on. I would love to hear sermons focusing on teaching us about who God is, who Jesus is, who the Holy Spirit is, how we can truly know Him, and trust him, in spite of life’s pain and sorrows. He is so good! It’s all right there for us to discover….but, too often, I hear sermons about me, and how I need to do this or that. I’m learning that when the focus is on God and his word, He moves heaven and earth to stir the willing heart to believe and serve him freely. What a blessing is the man of God who Loves his Bible! I praise God for this pastor who was able to communicate this to my stubborn heart.
this is SO extraordinary a teaching for how to TRAIN. You are one brilliant and wisdom-filled follower of The Lord, sir. And so OF COURSE I sunscribed – and will be sure to hear as many more as your vids as possible…sometimes listening to one more than just once. ps: i;m unable to send youtubes but sometimes tell others about topics i deem hot by writing on little scraps of paper – I do what i can! Thank you for all your efforts by God.
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I teach a Sunday school class of college aged students. This is what I have been trying and thinking for 30 years. Thank you for organizing it. Doug Stoliker
Thank you very much – I appreciate this video. I am a parent of young adults and teenager.
I tried reading “A Case for Christ” years ago but didn’t really know how to simplify it into a training study Q & A for my children. Please do you have 30 minutes “work book” that I can incorporate into my family Devotion that will TRAIN my children and I in our Christian Faith?
I desperately need this as my young adult children are struggling with their Christian faith. Your advice & suggestions would be appreciated.
In this video, You mentioned a set questions you used, please how can I get it?
Thank you
So many times I've been in churches that lectured us to go out there and be witnesses, yet never had an approach for training believers!
Titus 1:9-13. KJV. We are to win people over not just win arguments.
We all may receive five Crowns 👑👑👑👑👑 and four of them are for feeding the flock. Don’t let Satan steal your Crowns.
It’s not you it’s their flesh. Most go forty years in the desert before they understand that Jesus does it all through you. And keep our minds on the Spirit.
We need this for adults as well as youth!
This is a truly important video: every church should internalize JWW's message and act on it.
For too long the church has been a Sunday sermon club. Very few transformed lives and even fewer missional Christians of any age!
If the church was serious about mission it would be conducting training at least once a month, say Saturday afternoon and evening, with plenty of study, discussion, simulation and both intellectual and skills practice (on the street, where appropriate). The key, as JWW said is to involve, or 'internalize' skills and knowledge. For instance, a sermon really teaches almost nothing. A discussion on the topic teaches, because people ask questions, bat ideas around and grow because they make the topic theirs as they process and discuss.
Each congregation should be equipping people in training on the common questions of/objections to Christianity and those made by Muslims (the biggest mission field on earth), every year with a training day on each…and on other topics between times.
I so appreciate this. We need, as elders, to not only articulate our faith, but nurture the ability to do this in others, whether younger or just younger in faith.
Thank you.
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Thank you. Very helpful..
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