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Be Prepared

Our age is one of the most difficult ages in which to be a Christian. A staggering number of students (some have estimated as high as 70 percent) who head to college confessing Christ are no longer active in their faith by the time they graduate. 

When it comes to the Christian faith, the cultural landscape has shifted, and the challenges have intensified. It used to be that if you were a Christian, you were thought of as a bit strange, perhaps naïve. Now Christians are often targeted as the enemies of societal progress. More than ever, we need to be prepared to defend a Christian way of seeing the world. But can faith be defended? Many people assume there is a tension between faith and reason.

When people ask hard questions about God and no one takes their questions seriously or provides them with good answers, it is understandable that they come to the conclusion that good answers to their questions must not exist.

Peter encourages us to be ready to ask and answer hard questions. The health of the church in the days ahead, in large part, will be determined by the way we handle questions. The opportunity to remove an obstacle to faith in a person’s life is even more important than getting your dream job, so you need to take the time to be prepared.