15. Apologetics

(choose one)

• RealLife Plus Seminar
  1. Attend RealLife Plus Seminar. 
  2. Complete instructor�s exercise. 
  3. Discuss with an Equipping Partner.
• Twelve Questions
  1. Read Pat McLeod�s �Twelve Questions People Ask� (Wilson House lending library). 
  2. Discuss the booklet with an Equipping Partner. 
  3. With your Equipping Partner role play from memory an answer to one of the questions.
• Talk with 5 people
  1. Talk with 5 people on your campus about their beliefs regarding God.  (You can use a �Quest Survey� found at http://godsquad.com/Squadroom/Resources/Evangelism/QuEST.htm or create a similar one of your own.)  If they do not believe in God, ask them what keeps them from believing and what it would take for them to believe.  Write down the responses you get. 
  2. Together with an Equipping Partner, observe what questions and issues are obstacles to belief in God for students on your campus.
• Scaling the Secular City
  1. Read Scaling the Secular City by J.P. Moreland. 
  2. Complete a Book Review. 
  3. Choose 3 chapters and summarize their arguments on 3x5 notecards. 
  4. Share your Book Review with an Equipping Partner, and discuss what you have learned from the book.
• Handbook of Christian Apologetics
  1. Read through one part of The Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli. 
  2. Summarize the arguments you read about on 3x5 notecards. 
  3. Have an Equipping Partner quiz you on how you would respond to someone�s questions on these topics (e.g. one notecard could be �Existence of God� and contain a summary of the various arguments for the existence of God).