I enjoyed John Chapman’s book “Setting Hearts on Fire”…more ‘evangelistic’ than ‘apologetic’.
I’d second both of those recommendations – Keller is a good model of an Acts 17 like approach. I read Chapman years ago – also his book “Know and tell the Gospel”
Good Book Company is working on a new title for next year called “preaching like a train driver” (working title) which aims to do a lot of nuts and bolts things about speaking/preaching that many of the more rarified books on preaching assume someone already has under their belts… watch this space.
Tactics – Gregory Koukl will help you plan each step, easy and effective. After I begin using its method in my blog, a lot have changed.
Hi Tim T, any chance you (The Good Book Company) or Matthias Medua could reproduce Chappo’s Giving The Talk as a DVD or even put them on Vimeo? I’ve found it a great resource for training people, but I only have a VHS copy and I don’t have a VHS player any longer. Tim
I’ll give them a swing over it!
The best website on apologetic talks / CU lunchbars is written by Alex Banfield-Hicks, a great apologetic speaker who works for UCCF (although now moving on to other things). Check it out here: http://bespeaking.org/
Also have a look at:
Buckle-Dykes, Sarah, ed. How to Speak at Special Events. Christian Focus, 2007.
Howard, Donald, ed. Preach or Perish: Reaching the Hearts and Minds of the World Today. Kingsgrove Press, 2008.
The Reason For God – Keller
and http://uga.ruf.msites.com/site_content/attachments/0000/0472/Deconstructing_Defeater_Beliefs_Tim_Keller.pdf
I enjoyed John Chapman’s book “Setting Hearts on Fire”…more ‘evangelistic’ than ‘apologetic’.
I’d second both of those recommendations – Keller is a good model of an Acts 17 like approach. I read Chapman years ago – also his book “Know and tell the Gospel”
Setting hearts on fire has to be the foundational resource here: http://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/setting-hearts-on-fire
I have seen this book highly recommended (although it is not Christian): How to hold an audience without a rope: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Hold-Audience-Without-Rope/dp/1163150290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341309514&sr=8-1
Good Book Company is working on a new title for next year called “preaching like a train driver” (working title) which aims to do a lot of nuts and bolts things about speaking/preaching that many of the more rarified books on preaching assume someone already has under their belts… watch this space.
I suspect the particular skills for giving apologetics talks is completely different – and I’m not sure I know of a comprehensive resource, but here are few ideas to get you going:
http://bespeaking.org/2012/01/03/kellers-gospel-shaped-apologetics-14/
http://www.bethinking.org/resources/conversational-apologetics.htm
these are 2 talks Keller gave at WTS on giving presentations:
http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/ww103-a-copyright.mp3
http://media1.wts.edu/media/audio/ww103-b-copyright.mp3
you may have to register for free here to access:
http://wts.edu/resources/media.html
Tactics – Gregory Koukl will help you plan each step, easy and effective. After I begin using its method in my blog, a lot have changed.
Hi Tim T, any chance you (The Good Book Company) or Matthias Medua could reproduce Chappo’s Giving The Talk as a DVD or even put them on Vimeo? I’ve found it a great resource for training people, but I only have a VHS copy and I don’t have a VHS player any longer. Tim
I’ll give them a swing over it!
The best website on apologetic talks / CU lunchbars is written by Alex Banfield-Hicks, a great apologetic speaker who works for UCCF (although now moving on to other things). Check it out here: http://bespeaking.org/
Also have a look at:
Buckle-Dykes, Sarah, ed. How to Speak at Special Events. Christian Focus, 2007.
Howard, Donald, ed. Preach or Perish: Reaching the Hearts and Minds of the World Today. Kingsgrove Press, 2008.
Chappo’s Setting Hearts on Fire is the best.