The GOD Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith
Get the keys to engage in conversation about one’s beliefs by using the tools of storytelling and illustrations in this book. Instead of bombarding people with a one sided lecture, the authors give examples of how to discuss and defend the questions Christians are often asked, such as:
- “Jesus, Buddha or Mohammed?”
- “Are We An Accident?”
- Can God Be Good If Terrorists Exist?”
Note from Dr. Foster H. Shannon:
“My friend told me about an experience she had, waiting at the hospital for her sister who was having chemo:
A lady who was sitting next to her started to talk about her own cancer – and the reality of death.
She said she was Jewish – and yet wasn’t sure of what happens after death.My friend felt sad and helpless as she listened to the lady, because she didn’t have the words to even start a conversation about God and His gift of eternal life.I told my friend she was not alone.
Most Christians feel ill-equipped to initiate a conversation about God and are not prepared to answer questions about Christianity.
A lady who was sitting next to her started to talk about her own cancer – and the reality of death.
She said she was Jewish – and yet wasn’t sure of what happens after death.My friend felt sad and helpless as she listened to the lady, because she didn’t have the words to even start a conversation about God and His gift of eternal life.I told my friend she was not alone.
Most Christians feel ill-equipped to initiate a conversation about God and are not prepared to answer questions about Christianity.
To know what to say, before you need it, I am recommending this book!”
The GOD Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith, by J.P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff, 192 pages; paperback.
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This is a book about apologetics rather than a book centering on apologetic arguments. It explains what apologetics is and what it is not; the proper limitations of apologetics. It deals with the issue of faith and reason. It rejects rigid fideism as well as exclusive dependency on rational argumentation. It reminds us that we must speak the truth in love, and that a good argument can be mortally damaged by an arrogant dismissive spirit. One might describe this book as being about the strategies of apologetics. This is an excellent read and is bound to add to one’s appreciation for and use of apologetics. Dr. Beilby is professor of systematic and philosophical theology at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. ISBN 978-0-8308-3945-2
Dr. Adler points out that many of the (popular) errors of thought, with which we wrestle, trace to initially simple errors made by some of the greatest modern philosophers from the seventeenth century to the present. These mistakes lead to egregious errors regarding human and animal intelligence, the establishment of morality and ethics, and the reality of God – among others. Adler writes in the Prologue: “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” So wrote Aristotle in the fourth century B.C….At the very beginning, before the consequences are discerned, the mistake appears innocent and goes unnoticed. Only when we are confronted with the repugnant conclusions to which cogent reasoning carries us are we impelled to retrace our steps to find out where we went wrong.” Mortimer Adler was one of the foremost teachers in America during the Twentieth Century. He has served as chairman of the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and as editor of the Great Books of the Western World. He is the author of more than fifty books. Dr. Adler has been sympathetic to the Christian worldview for most of his intellectual life. He converted to Christianity In his early seventies.
Richard Milton has been a science reporter in England for more than twenty years. He is astounded and bewildered at the closed minds he encounters in the scientific establishment to a rational discussion of the mechanisms of evolution. He states, “I accept that there is persuasive circumstantial evidence for evolution, but I do not accept that there is any significant evidence that the mechanism driving that evolution is the neo-Darwinian mechanism of chance mutation coupled with natural selection.” He says further, “I am seriously concerned, on purely rational grounds, that generations of school and university teachers have been led to accept speculation as scientific theory and faulty data as scientific fact: that this process has accumulated a mountainous catalog of mingled fact and fiction that can no longer be contained by the sparsely elegant theory.”
