Equipping the Saints to Contend for the Faith

by Allie Martin
December 15, 2003

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(AgapePress) - Teaching Christians how to better defend their faith while sharpening witnessing skills -- that's the focus of two-day conferences known as "Worldview Weekends."

Several years ago, the American Family Association -- along with several other Christian ministries -- began holding the two-day conferences around the U.S. The conferences feature prominent speakers who give Christians practical ways to take a stand for righteousness in today's culture.

Brannon Howse, founder and director of Worldview Weekend, says the conferences have two primary goals. He points out that the Book of Hebrews says that without faith, it is impossible to please God; that is why, he says, the conferences attempt to teach people to "contend for the faith" and to defend it. But there is more, he says.

"Worldview Weekend isn't just about throwing up intellectual arguments to bring people to Christ," Howse says. " We want to teach people to lead others to Jesus Christ in a biblical way that creates true converts, not false converts, so that we can learn how to get around the intellectual arguments to coming to Christ."

Howse says it is vital for believers -- both young and old -- to know how to take a stand for Christ.

"We want to keep the young people from walking away from the Christian faith by teaching them that they can go to college and stand firm in the storm of godlessness of our culture," he explains, "and yet we also want to teach the adults and the young people how to proclaim truth in a world that says truth is created as you go along, not discovered as through reading the Word of God."

Twenty Worldview Weekends are planned for 2004 in cities like Memphis, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Rochester, New York.