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How Do We Talk with Skeptics?:
(Questions for Restless Minds)

Sam Chan

Lexham Press

Share your faith and keep your friends.

You want your non-believing friends to be brothers and sisters in Christ. But how do you talk about Jesus without driving them away? When do you talk? When do you stay quiet?

In How Do We Talk with Skeptics?, Sam Chan shows you how to walk the tightrope by offering ten wise tips to keep the balance right. Listen well. Speak persuasively. Learn hospitality. Gently reveal the holes in your friend’s worldview. Gain wisdom on when to speak and when to listen. With Chan’s help, you can keep your friends while being a faithful witness for Christ.

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Sam Chan

Sam Chan (PhD Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is a Global citizen – born in Hong Kong, raised in Australia, medical doctor in Sydney, PhD from the USA. Sam is a public speaker for City Bible Forum. He speaks to high-schoolers and professionals, to seminary students and academics. His topics are evangelism, ethics, preaching, story-telling, and apologetics. His passion is exploring how storytelling can be used to teach, preach and evangelize oral learners (90% of the world).

Endorsements

The best thing about Sam’s book How Do We Talk with Skeptics? is not just that it’s practical, but it’s realistic. Sam anticipates the challenges we will face and shares ten tips to help us overcome them. As you read Sam’s tips you will find yourself thinking ‘yes—I was wondering how to do that.’ As an evangelism trainer, I recommend Sam’s tips to others. As a Christian who wants to talk about Jesus with my skeptical friends, I put them into practice.

Belinda Lakelin, Creator of “Plan A: The Great Commission for Every Christian” for the Baptist Association of NSW and ACT

Sam Chan is a compass for our complex times, guiding Christians through the culturally-fraught waters of commending Christ to others. The practical wisdom packed into this contribution is indispensable for anyone serious about having better God conversations.

Dan Paterson, Founder of Questioning Christianity; Speaker and Evangelist; Coauthor of Questioning Christianity

This is seriously awesome! I’ve read a lot of books on evangelism, and Sam Chan’s insight into the culture and the way forward in conversations is profound. What a blessing you are to us all. This is not to be put on the pile of books to be read ‘sometime,’ but this is one to be read tonight.

Julie-anne Laird, Director of Missional Engagement, City to City Australia; Canon for Church Planting, Melbourne Anglican Diocese

This generation of Christians inhabit cultures that sometimes reject not only biblical revelation about reality but also the reality of reality itself. The Questions for Restless Minds series poses many of the toughest questions faced by young Christians to some of the world’s foremost Christian thinkers and leaders. Along the way, this series seeks to help the Christian next generation to learn how to think biblically when they face questions in years to come that perhaps no one yet sees coming.

Russell Moore, Editor in Chief, Christianity Today

If you’re hungry to go deeper in your faith, wrestle with hard questions, and are dissatisfied with the shallow content on your social media newsfeed, you’ll really appreciate this series of thoughtful deep dives on critically important topics like faith, the Bible, friendship, sexuality, philosophy, and more. As you engage with some world-class Christian scholars, you’ll be encouraged, equipped, challenged, and above all invited to love God more with your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Andy Kim, Multiethnic Resource Director, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

We have written short books pitched at undergraduates who want arguments that are accessible and stimulating, but invariably courteous. The material is comprehensive enough that it has become an important resource for pastors and other campus leaders who devote their energies to work with students. Each essay ends with a brief annotated bibliography, intended for readers who want to probe a little further.

D. A. Carson, From the Foreword