How Apologetics Can Stop Your Faith from Crumbing

追加: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]The Bible is full of wisdom. It's not just dos and don'ts. It's God's wisdom that that's there for us. And and I I I said that and I think it applies to you that I wanted my mind to wrap around what my heart wanted to believe.

[00:00:15]>> Yeah, that's well put.

[00:00:16]>> And that's what SCS has done for me and for several other people. And and I think that's probably true in your life as well.

[00:00:22]>> Absolutely. I just remember hearing so many of the things that especially, you know, and I'm not a science-minded person naturally, but all of the science lectures because that was a huge topic in this class was all of these >> progressive Christians in this class essentially were saying, well, we have to get on board with evolution because that's just where it's going. And you know, if and essentially the discussions were saying like if the Bible doesn't affirm evolution, then we have to change the way we see the Bible. We have to change what we think the Bible is. And I just remember thinking, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then hearing some of these amazing scientists, astrophysicists on the SCES app talking about how the Bible actually confirms scientific uh conclusions. And then hearing our friend Frank Turk say, "Science doesn't say anything.

[00:01:06]Scientists do." That was huge. I was just like, "Yes, that makes so much sense." And learning that, you know, philosophy is important, and a lot of scientists are very bad philosophers.

[00:01:16]And just learning how to kind of navigate some of these questions was huge for me. It's a it's a it's a really tricky thing sometimes as a Christian to fully come to grips with what we believe and and we're afraid to sometimes because we're afraid that that we're going to number one be called out and and asked to defend what we're doing. So we shy away from being able to do that.

[00:01:43]We don't want to do that because if we can do it, somebody's going to ask us to do it. But I also think that we're we're as Christians are sometimes afraid that we will lose our faith if we really look into it. And and that's bothersome to me now as I look back and particularly as as I my my girls have have have grown and now I've got grandchildren to to be able to put their arms around and and not just because I said so or somebody else said so, but because they really embrace the truth. Now, one of the things that I'm very concerned about, and we go back and we're talking about your pastor and in my church as well, uh George Bara's latest statistic shows that 51% of our pastors have a biblical worldview.

[00:02:30]>> Yeah.

[00:02:31]>> Means almost half don't.

[00:02:32]>> I'm surprised there's that many that do to be honest.

[00:02:35]>> Well, the you know, the Lord always works with a remnant somehow. But but the point I'm trying to make is how in the world can the sheep of the pasture find their way if the if the shepherds are blind?

[00:02:46]>> And then that's what we're up against.

[00:02:48]And you know another startling statistic from George Barn is that 6% of the people in the pews on any given Sunday morning actually have a biblical worldview.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah. Yeah. And one of the things we're focusing on now at at SCES, and I think you you would agree with it, is that, you know, 6% of our churches have disciplehip programs.

[00:03:11]And that's just, you know, the great commission.

[00:03:16]>> We get it backwards sometimes. You know, we just think if we we give them the gospel and walk away that we've done our job. But that's theological malpractice.

[00:03:25]Yeah.

[00:03:25]>> When we do that, >> that's a good phrase. Yeah. um because we we're literally called to make disciples. We're not called to to really evangelize. And I I'm certainly don't want to stop people from proclaiming the gospel, but uh there there's more to it than that, >> right? Making disciples begins with a a gospel proclamation, but it's it's something that continues. And I think the environment that I grew up in, I think many of us in the evangelical subculture of the '9s and late '8s, you know, there was this real emphasis on especially a lot of the youth events I attended of the altar call, which I'm not against altter calls by any means, but it was almost like it was just to get people to sign their name on a card or say this magic prayer and then there was just nothing that really happened after that. And that that really is missing the point of the great commission, which is to make disciples.

[00:04:12]Yeah.

[00:04:12]>> I think there are two great lies from Satan. uh one was the initial thing that he that he asked Eve and ultimately to Adam, did God really say that? And so that's why we're so focused on um the inherency and the infallibility of scripture here at SCES. We we we just will not stray from that. And and that just filters out to everything that we do at every position we take, everything in culture. You got to go back to the source to find out what's really true about it. But the other thing, and you just touched on it, that I think Satan tells us is try harder.

[00:04:53]>> And you know, uh, growing up in as a Baptist in the South, we would have, uh, revivals every spring and every fall.

[00:05:01]And ultimately, you know, we'd have the altar call and in order to get the preacher to shut up, they would, you know, they would draw the altar call out. So you you you know one more person and and you think well maybe I'm that person if I can go forward maybe maybe he'll hush and but you always went forward and and and the only purpose you went forward you went forward for sometimes was to say I'm going to try harder to be better.

[00:05:24]>> Yeah. That's yeah, like a recommmitment sometimes they would call it.