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Five Challenges For Your Secular Friends

Do you feel like you’re always on the defensive about Christianity? There’s the Crusades, Westboro is probably inappropriately protesting something, and a prominent Christian leader has likely said something your friends think is wrong. And even once you get past the stereotypes, it takes a lot of hard work to intelligently share the gospel with your secular, skeptical friends.

But what about atheism? Though it has been persistently marketed to us as a worldview that stands for reason and science, the truth is that the atheistic worldview is riddled with contradictions and outlandish claims. And because most secular people haven’t studied why atheism is true, an excellent evangelistic strategy for you and your church is to understand these five challenges for atheism.

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Five Books for Skeptics and Seekers

Do you ever feel like you have to have all the answers for your skeptical friends? Here’s the problem: it is way, way easier to ask a hard question than to give a good answer. In the space of five minutes someone can ask twenty incredibly difficult questions: how can we know anything at all? Maybe the Bible was altered by a group of powerful religious leaders – prove me wrong! How do you know Jesus is God? What about the violence in the Old Testament? How do you reconcile faith and science? What is your opinion on evolution? Doesn’t the Bible contradict itself? And on and on it can go…

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Christianity Is For Failures

I am the kind of guy who can watch The Biggest Loser (a show about people losing weight) while I sit on the couch, eating cake and ice cream. I find that the subtle pressure of needing to live a healthier life is perfectly met by the satisfying enjoyment of baked goods.

I wish that was my biggest failing in life, but there are many others. I can be lazy, overwork, and procrastinate, all in the same day. To compensate for my lack of spiritual disciplines, sometimes I humbly mention that I fast a minimum of three times a day (the count depends on how many snacks I have between meals). For good measure, I could mention my struggle (or lack of struggle) with materialism, selfishness, impatience, lust, revenge, and so on and so forth. Alternatively, I could try to impress you with my religious devotion, piety, church attendance, dedication to ministry, service to others, and the many sacrifices I’ve heroically made for God.

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