~giving a defense for your faith~
Apologetics discusses and explains Christianity for those who don't understand or agree with it.
Our unique Approach
Club students receive a resource packet for every Apologetics question!
Each packet contains 3-4 articles that answer the question along with quotations about the topic. The student chooses the answer he likes best and rewrites it in his own words. Next, he adds in several quotations from the list. Finally, he writes an introduction and short conclusion.
One of our club students, working his mom, was able to write a whole speech in just an hour and a half! (We highly recommend families work on Apologetics speeches together.)
Theses speeches are put on notecards for practicing and competing. Our fall tournament only has 5 Apologetics questions making it very doable for new students and reluctant writers!
As students complete all 10 questions and grow as speakers, they begin to add to their Apologetics speeches as they learn from sermons, podcasts, and Bible studies.
Siblings Elijah and Kaitlyn beautifully share their experience with competitive speech in an interview on Educate for Life about Apologetics! You don't want to miss it.
For ages 12-18
Answering the world's questions builds faith
Apologetics questions help to create a mental framework for studying the Bible. Biblical information has a place to be categorized and stored! Students often talk about how a sermon or podcast fits with a specific question/topic.
The first 5 questions are used for the fall tournament.
What is the Gospel?
Why is it important that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man?
What is the grace of God? Why is it important?
Is there historical evidence for the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus? Why is this important?
Can a person do enough good in their life to go to heaven?
What does it mean that God is triune? Why is that important?
Does science contradict the Bible?
What is the importance of prayer?
What evidence is there for the existence of God in our physical universe?
Compare and contrast the world’s view of identity with God’s view of identity.