Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Digital
Overview
Tactics provides the game plan for defending your faith and artfully communicating the truths of Christianity with confidence and grace.
This expanded anniversary edition of the classic book of Christian apologetics includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on Mini Tactics filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions.
In a culture increasingly indifferent or even hostile to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to communicate with those who do not speak their language or accept their source of authority.
In Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition, Gregory Koukl demonstrates how to artfully regain control of conversations, keeping them moving forward in constructive ways through thoughtful diplomacy. You'll learn how to:
- Meet challenges, questions, and provocations with poise and conviction.
- Effortlessly start your own evangelical conversations.
- Present the truth clearly, cleverly, and persuasively.
- Graciously and effectively expose faulty thinking and logical fallacies.
- Most important, you'll learn how to get people thinking seriously about Jesus.
Drawing on extensive experience defending Christianity in the public square, Koukl will not only walk you through effective arguments to defend why you believe what you believe, but he'll teach you methods for engaging in meaningful dialogue and debate.
Step-by-step, you'll learn the tactics of good persuasion and defense, how to identify the tactics of your opponent, and how to build your case, patiently and practically.
Reviews
2 ratings
Matt DeVore
7/21/2022
Patrick
1/19/2022
What Koukl does here isn't your normal apologetics but it's the process of having the conversation with others about Christianity. So not quite showing you a positive or negative case presentation but how to respond in the best way possible to those who have questions or criticism of Christianity. Koukl inspires Christians to be measured in their approach and provide a loose process with responding to others or engaging in conversation with others. So having an understanding this isn't the "what to say" but "how to say it". What he also does well is to encourage people to do an internal critique of the other side well. While Koukl isn't a presuppositionalist, he has some good work here that would benefit someone who subscribes to that apologetic method. The book also adds a lot of examples which is perfect for the material laid out. While some may not like the little depth he goes into important issues, it's good to know that's not the purpose of the book and those subjects should be tackled in other books. Overall, this was a great book that really gave me a lot of ideas to think about my own presentations. The hardest part is actually trusting "the system" as we all tend to want to give the immediate reply rather than seeing if there's a better way. I would recommend this book and the Cave To The Cross Apologetics podcast that covered the book chapter-by-chapter (biased plug there). Final Grade - A-
