Tag Archives: teaching

I often talk about the need to “reform” our approach to youth ministry in light of the astonishing statistics related to young people leaving the Christian faith. While I tend to focus on the direction I would prefer to take, I seldom spend much time critiquing the alternative strategies that other youth …

In this presentation before an audience of Summit Worldview Ministry supporters, J. Warner Wallace describes the effort all parents, youth leaders and Christian educators must make to equip and inoculate young people. How can adults help young believers as they train them to encounter the challenges of a secular worldview? …

In this presentation before an audience of Summit Worldview Ministry supporters, J. Warner Wallace describes the effort all parents, youth leaders and Christian educators must make to equip and inoculate young people. How can we get young believers to take their Christian “walk” seriously? How can we motivate them to …

In this presentation before an audience of Summit Worldview Ministry supporters, J. Warner Wallace describes the effort all parents, youth leaders and Christian educators must make to equip and inoculate young people. Are we teaching our kids what’s true, why it’s true and why it matters? Are we helping them …

Every year at the CrossExamined Instructors Academy (CIA), dozens of students courageously offer their own “apologetics” presentations to those of us who had been assembled as evaluators, coaches and trainers. Prior to these talks, we take the time to help the students understand the proper structure of public presentations of …

If we hope to reverse the trend of Christian students leaving the Church during their college years, we’ll need to stop teaching and start training. I’ve proposed a way to do just that, and this week we’ve been examining a simple model (using T.R.A.I.N. as an acronym) to help describe …

This week, I’ve been writing about a strategy designed to stop the departure of young Christians who leave the Church during their college years. As always, I’ve argued we should stop teaching and start training. We’ve been examining a simple model (using T.R.A.I.N. as an acronym) to help describe the …

We’ve been examining a strategy to stem the tide of young Christians leaving the Church during their college years. I suggest we stop teaching and start training. I’ve outlined a simple model (using T.R.A.I.N. as an acronym) to help describe the difference between training and teaching. Teaching is about imparting …

The Church is experiencing a crisis. Young Christians are leaving the Church in large numbers during their college years, and our efforts to address the problem have been inadequate. I suggest we stop teaching and start training. In yesterday’s post I outlined a simple model (using T.R.A.I.N. as an acronym) …

I’ve written repeatedly about why the Church needs to stop teaching students about their faith. Young Christians are leaving the Church in tremendous numbers during their college years, and our efforts to teach them has been incapable of reducing this rate of attrition. That’s why it’s time to stop teaching …