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Identify one or two ways you can help prepare your students for attacks on their Christian faith.
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There will be people that question each of us, including our students, and some may try to pull people away from the faith. By teaching our students that God is real and interactive with every part of our lives and by incorporating a Biblical worldview in every subject we teach, we can lay a foundation for our students to stand firm when attacks do come. They need to have a foundational relationship with God. We can also pray for them to stand in Christ confidently.
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Allow students to frequently share how their Christian faith and relationship with the Lord affects their everyday living- this will help to cement the relevancy of the Scriptures and develop their personal testimonies which no attack can deny. As was mentioned expose them to current issues that are in contrast to the Christian worldview and let them do comparative studies utilizing the Word as the anchor.
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It’s more than just memorizing arguments to confront those who would attack us.
First, we must pray for those who persecute us, even if it is a prayer as brief as, “Jesus help me,” when they might find themselves under attack.
It’s also important for our students to understand the source of these attacks: spiritual warfare and the enemy is behind it.
A thorough understanding of knowing why you believe is essential, not just it’s how I was brought up. Defending the faith also requires a handful of key verses committed to memory. Ravi Zachariah is perhaps one of the most outstanding apologists and is worth reading and listening to.
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Share current events that attack the faith. Use Scripture to show why those events are outside the will of God and encourage them to state how they should respond to those events.
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I have my students memorize Scripture every week. It is a way we can have God’s word at the ready all the time. Help your students talk about world view problems and give a Bibical worldview to answer those questions.