Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Digital Logos Edition
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:
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.
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- Presents a new tactic that takes believers from the scholarship to the relationship
- Offers a game plan that allows the reader to converse with confidence in any situation
- Helps readers to see remarkable changes in their ability to effectively maneuver in a relaxed and confident way in their conversations with others about Christ
Part One: the Game Plan
- Diplomacy or D-Day?
- Reservations
- Getting in the Driver’s Seat: The Columbo Tactic
- Columbo Step Two: The Burden of Proof
- Step Three: Using Columbo to Lead the Way
- Perfecting Columbo
- Turnabout: Defending against Columbo
Part Two: Finding the Flaws
- Suicide: Views That Self-Destruct
- Practical Suicide
- Sibling Rivalry and Infanticide
- Taking the Roof Off
- Steamroller
- Rhodes Scholar
- Just the Facts, Ma’am
- Inside Out
- Mini-Tactics
- More Sweat, Less Blood
In a society filled with so much anti-Christian rhetoric, there is no better book to equip Christians to think clearly, soundly, and inoffensively in the face of the devices employed today in opposition to the Christian faith.
—Norm Geisler Author of Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics and When Skeptics Ask
Greg Koukl is a master tactician. I know of no one who is more conscientious in his efforts to communicate effectively and winsomely his Christian faith. In this book Greg shares with us his tried and true methods, skills honed through continual practice and revision. Mastering his tactics will make you a more effective ambassador for Christ.
—William Lane Craig Author of Reasonable Faith—Christian Truth and Apologetics
Just as a course on tactics is a requirement at all military academies, so too Greg Koukl’s Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions should be required training for all Christians and churches. Koukl has made a worthwhile contribution to the literature on apologetics by teaching us how to say what we say. Witty and winsome, this resource is as fun to read as it is to put into practice.
—Hank Hanegraaff Host of the “Bible Answer Man,” author of Christianity in Crisis: The 21st Century and The Complete Bible Answer Book, Collector’s Edition