Case studies: Training our students to think
Josh Newton | May 5, 2010
The title of our latest BIC teaching series is “Tough questions for a Big God”. In this series we hope to expose students to some of the challenging questions that skeptics ask when confronted with God and Christianity. These questions are questions that I am sure you have encountered in the past or have even raised yourself at some point.
We are working through these tough questions by diving into case studies, stories that draw students into real life issues and encourage them to understand why a person would ask these questions and how Christians should respond. The goal of this activity is to help students develop a biblical worldview and prepare them to think through some of life’s challenging questions.
The questions we will pose include:
- “Isn’t the Bible just a bunch of made up stories?”
- “If you are really there God, why don’t you prove it!”
- “If we can be forgiven of everything, doesn’t that mean we can do anything?”
- “If you are the God of love, why would you send people to Hell?”
- “All good people go to heaven, right?”
- “God, why do you allow suffering?”
As we discuss these questions we take students into the Bible to show what God has to say about each of these questions. We work through what God says and then apply it to the questions at hand. So far I have been encouraged by our students in this series, it is neat to see them grow in their understanding of who God is and what he has done.
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