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  Can you think of a time when you were called upon to give a defense of your faith in Christ? If so, briefly explain.

  Michael Nickerson replied 5 hours, 17 minutes ago 447 Members · 471 Replies

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  Joe Szogedi

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  04/02/2024 at 18:37

  I usually get asked a variety of questions from people at my job. One individual asked me how can they quiet the negative voices . This person is unsaved and somewhat unstable as well. I explained to him about the Armor of God and that our war we fight is not carnal rather spiritual. I also explained that the power I have to defend myself comes from the Holy Spirit which comes from being saved by the blood of Jesus. I gave him my Bible and showed him in God’s word. I pray he will get saved but only God knows if he will

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  Gail Bradley

  Member

  04/01/2024 at 19:24

  I can remember when I was young, I was more zealous with scripture. Today I feel like a different person, I am slow to learn and understand the word and I am not as confident as I was at 18 years old. I can remember justifying my believe to friends on the playground. Even with Jehovah Witnesses, they did not know much about Jesus Christ back then because they were only allowed to study the Old Testament. I found out that they had much insight about Yahweh, but it puzzled me that they did not know Jesus Christ. I also remember becoming angry about not being able to convince a young person that Christianity was the true faith. I got into an argument that day and I felt so ashamed of the way I handled things. I did not know anything about apologetics back then.

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  Eunice Gaddis

  Member

  04/01/2024 at 18:15

  Eunice Gaddis

  Yes, I can remember a time when asked about my faith why I changed so much and begin sharing with my friend why I was not still living, the way they knew me. I begin sharing the gospel with them and they begin to ask antagonistic questions and I had not remembered any scriptures to defend what I was saying, and they continued being obnoxious and I begin to get angry and my responses were rude and disrespectful because I couldn't defend my faith appropriately. I begin praying and I started studying 1Peter 3:15 and found out that there's proper way to witness to someone, and how as a follower of Jesus Christ should respond to others in a respectful way and how to glorify God during the process.

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  Stacy Colwell

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  03/21/2024 at 06:09

  As a missionary, I face this situation frequently. Typically, I start with curiosity. I ask what they believe and listen intently. From there, I find commonalities, and find opportunities to tie something they said that they believe in to a truth about the nature God, Jesus, and/or our necessity of a Savior, or I try to respond to questions that they have. Whenever I speak with someone, I do try to lay out a logical “case” while also showing my excitement in being able to share the joy I have in Jesus.I don’t necessarily pull out my Bible and read Scripture, but I always refer back to points from Scripture.

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  Jakob Bearne

  Member

  03/16/2024 at 18:13

  I’ve had a lot of experiences where I have had to explain and defend the reason for my faith in Jesus. I’ve spoken to some Muslims and they pressed me with some interesting questions, some of which i had answers for, but some left me a bit stumped. I found speaking with them a lot more difficult than speaking to someone in the new age or just an atheist. I think the thing that a lot of unsaved people struggle with is the idea that while God’s love is perfect, his wrath, and judgement are also perfect, and hell is very real and eternal. I hadn’t even brought those to the discussion but those things were asked of me to defend. I would say something like “God is perfect and therefore he must punish sin”. But that often doesn’t suffice because there are many people who either don’t understand the concept of sin or just reject it all together.

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