Apologetics – Lord's Grace

Apologetics refers to an area of Christian theology that engages in a rational, evidential defense of the Christian world view. The origin of the word comes from the Greek, apologia, meaning to make a reasoned defense.

Christian Apologetics

It is the aim of Lord’s Grace and the Chinese Bible Church of San Diego to equip its members to defend their beliefs with truth and grace in accordance with 1 Peter 3:15.

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APCON

APCON is the Christian apologetics conference at the Chinese Bible Church of San Diego. It is organized by Lord’s Grace.

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Most Recent Event

Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024
Speaker: Jonathan Noyes

Watch video recordings of all three sessions of APCON 2024

Session 1: Young people are leaving Christianity at an unprecedented rate. How can believers better understand, relate to, equip, and train our youth? This talk explores why young people are leaving the church and encourages Christians to respond with reasonable explanations to challenges while developing authentic relationships with people. Jon offers five practical ways to help the next generation see that Christianity is the true story of reality. He discusses the difference between teaching and training, and encourages inoculation versus isolation.
Session 2: In this interactive role-play, Jon puts on the hat of an atheist and presents the top five reasons not to believe in God. Having been an atheist for more than 25 years, Jon brings a conversation that is very convincing and often proves to be a great way to introduce an apologetic series. The aim of the discussion is to show the participants their misunderstandings of atheism, and to help them learn why they believe, not just what they believe, thus highlighting the need for apologetics. This has proved to be a great eye-opener for students and adults.
Session 3: We live in a relativistic world, one in which truth has become secondary to feelings and pleasure. During this talk, Jon will explain the history of relativism, and show how it’s become the prominent belief in our culture, influencing all areas of life, including morality and even the church. He then offers some tools that help others see what’s wrong with relativism, and why it doesn’t accurately reflect the world around us.

Jonathan Noyes, from Stand to Reason (str.org), is a former atheist, pastor, and now a teacher of apologetics.

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Previous APCON Presentations

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
10/27/23	Alan Shlemon	“TRANSGENDERISM: Truth and Compassion” Video recording \| Handout
04/05/19	William Soo Hoo, Ryan Pauly, Eddie Colanter	“Apologetics Talks: The Engaging Christian” (science & faith, culture & faith, reason & faith)
10/05/18	Alan Shlemon	“Making Abortion Unthinkable”
04/28/18	Dr. Bill Tam	“Disproving Evolution”
04/27/18	Dr. Bill Tam	“Facing the Giants: Same-Sex Marriage and Marijuana”
10/06/17	Gary Zacharias	“The SOUL: An Argument for Its Existence”
10/07/16	Greg Koukl	“Evil, Suffering, and the Goodness of God”
04/08/16	Dr. Fazale Rana	“Who Was Adam?”
09/11/15	Alan Shlemon	“Homosexuality: Truth and Compassion”
04/24/15	Casey Luskin	(Not available)