On-Sight Apologetics Training


Are you looking for an opportunity to provide your students with a meaningful trip that includes training in Christian apologetics? If so, BHIM® has just what you need. On-site training in Nashville, Tennessee, is offered for campus and church groups. This training can be combined with a mission trip or sightseeing. The training can be for a weekend or longer. The on-site training can be customized to meet your students' needs. Seminar options include:

  • Effectively Sharing Christ on Campus -- This seminar is designed to give your students a biblical basis for sharing Christ with their peers. Emphasis is place on establishing authentic relationships. Students are taught how to dialogue with their friends and how to answer their friends questions about the Christian faith.
  • Walking with the Father: A Seminar on Prayer -- This is a very practical seminar with an emphasis on knowing God and walking daily with Him. Different aspects of prayer are studied, including praise and thanksgiving, intercession, confession and petition.
  • General Training in Christian Apologetics -- This seminar prepares students to dialogue with their peers about Christ with gentleness and respect. When students finish the seminar they will be better equipped to answer their friends' questions about Christianity.

Topics include:

  • Understanding the worldviews encountered on campus
  • Knowing how to answer the claim that all morals are relative
  • Mastering First Principles of Knowledge
  • Understanding and relating to followers of other religions
  • Helping friends evaluate their worldviews
  • Explaining to peers how you know there is a God
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Who is an Apologist?

"By learning apologetics, I am better prepared to have a discussion regarding Christ."  Jessica Small

Firstly, a definition of apologetics is in order: Apologetics is the presentation of the truth claims of the Christian faith as found in the Scriptures. These truth claims are presented in a way that shows how they meet the deepest needs of individuals. Christian apologetics shows that biblical faith is the only approach to life that matches reality and that works when applied to life.

 

Apologists are persons who are deeply committed to what they believe and are always ready to explain these beliefs to others. Christian apologists are those whose lives have been so radically changed by Christ that they cannot help but bear witness to the transformation that has taken place. Apologists listen carefully to those around them to understand others' deepest needs and questions. Apologists then show others how God, as revealed in the Bible, can meet their needs and answer their questions.

 

True Christian apologists approach others not from a position of superiority, but from a position of love and authentic, sacrificial self-giving. Because Christian apologists have experienced the life-changing power of Christ, their deepest desire is to share Christ with others so they too can know Him in a personal way.

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