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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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I know that when my students go to university in our province that their faith will be under massive and insidious attack. If my students have experience solid Biblical integration, apologetics, and hermeneutics, they will be well armed to defend their faith and not get left sitting there wondering what happened. If they can defend their faith against foolishness like ‘the Bible contradicts itself,’ and, ‘obviously science proved the Bible is a myth,’ and set their accusers straight in a loving, compassionate, and graceful way, it will be good for their faith as well as their listeners.
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I think that we can help students prepare for attacks by being honest about the trials that we have experienced as we have walked the life path with God.
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Be truthful and honest, even in the hard things. Help them be critical thinkers.
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It is important that in all of their courses students are learning Scripture that shows them how each subject is viewed in the Bible, and how they can defend their faith and world view in all learning and in real life.
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Regular scripture memory is important and I use regular verse memory quizzes in my courses. Additionally, I usually take at least one course period a week to discuss some assertions and questions about the real world challenges my students face. This allows us to ask and answer those questions by asking, “what does the Bible say about this?”
