Friday, May 15, 2020

need for apologetics for youth

1.  Dr. Tofflemire, so you have written a book on apologetics tell me about it.
Yes  It is titled Evidences for God and His Creations.  available from Author House. It has over 200 references and surveys the top authors and findings on apologetics and on why the Bible is true, and God exists.
2. Why did you feel lead to write this book?
There are statistics that 50% of high school youth and  70% of college youth drop away from the Christian faith due to the naturalistic teachings they receive. These teachings say that there is no God and no miracles. How sad it is to send your child off to school and have him come home an atheist.
3. Is there a way to prevent this loss of our youth?
Yes statistics show that if the child has had classes on apologetics and world views, that this loss is greatly reduced.  Parents, churches and  some Christian schools can provide such training.  My Book and web site has such training.  Also there are many good apologetics training packages for youth available.  I have used a good youth package from Answers in Genesis that went over well with HS age youth. It had videos, questions for dialog, study guides, interactive activities.
4. Do you think churches are providing this training?
For the most part no. Youth are given fun times, fellowship, and worship with almost no teaching on apologetics.  Their questions and challenges to the the faith presented by atheistic professors are never answered. They doubt the bible being true. This is a greater problem when they leave home and go to college.
5. Does this have an effect or their morals and actions?
Yes they end up believing in relative morals. With this view- what ever their friends and society in general believes is what they believe and it can change with time.  This leads to loose sex, homosexuality, same sex marriage, crime, even drug and alcohol use to get high.  If one believes the Bible is true, your morals are anchored in It, to true and unchanging moral standards.
6. So are you available to help with this training?.
Yes I would love to and and feel called to do so. I am near in Athens, Tn. but can travel around and show training packages or do training. I used to live in Jacksonville , Fl.
7 Can you tell a little about yourself?
Yes I have had training in public speaking and am a distinguished toastmaster, I also have a masters in Christian ministry and a Dr. degree in Environmental engineering. I have given sermons on the Bible being true at local churches, and have been a past youth leader.
8. Thank you Dr. Tofflemire  for sharing about your book Evidences for God and His Creations and the need to train youth in apologetics, we will have your contact information on file here.

Ref.
Book is available from Author House as publisher, or online book stores like amazon.
Dr. James Tofflemire phone 904-705-6534, email engtuffy@comcast .net

Thursday, May 7, 2020

G. Koukl book on Tactics for evangelism

Koukl has a great book titled "Tactics ".  It is directed toward good witnessing and evangelism and incorporates some apologetics. I have a summary of it on my web revised site Creationapologetics.net

Friday, May 1, 2020

Revised apologetics book

I have done a new updated version of my apologetics book: Evidences for God and His Creations.  It has many new references.