A series of talks on apologetic

1. George Tan, follower of Christ at a
distance

2.  Story 1: Facebook post/ JC experience
 What is apologetics?
 Name and Meaning
 Examples in NT
 1Pet 3:15, Phil 1:7,16, Acts 18:4, 2Cor 10:3-6

4.  Explaining Christian truths
 Clarifying Christian misunderstandings
 Validating Christian experiences
 Against heresies

5.  To defend the faith
 It helps Christians know their faith
 To heighten interest in Christianity
 To counter the bad image
 Constant threat of apostasy
 Many false teachings out there
 To be thinking Christians

6.  Need from Truth
 Need from Experience
 Biblical Teaching
 1Cor 1:27, 8:1, 2Tim 2:14
 Jude 3, Rom 12:2, Acts 18:24-28
 2Pet3:15

7.  NT times
 Towards Jesus
 Jesus’s resurrection
 Towards miracles
 Book of Hebrew
 Church Fathers
 Towards the Jews and Romans
 Thomas Aquinas – Summa Contra

8.  Reformation
 19th Century Enlightenment Age
 Evolution, Industrial Revolution, Comparative
Religion
 20th Century Experiment Age
 New theological branches
 Neo Orthodox Theology
 Liberal Theology
 Existential Theology
 Advance of Science

9.  Postmodernism
 Nothing is Absolute
 Networked People
 We are not alone…….
 Midnight Tribes
 Light bulbs, computer/tablet and internet….