#402: Apologetics, Disappointing Faith, And When Heroes Fall with Lisa Fields

If you’re a follower of Jesus, you know you’re supposed to share your faith.We’re supposed to tell others about Jesus. But it’s often a topic that gives any Christian anxiety. What if I don’t know how to articulate what I believe? What if someone asks me a difficult question I don’t know how to answer?

What if I’m a terrible Christian, fail in my defense, get laughed at, and the name of Christ is disrespected because I don’t know what I’m talking about?

Take a deep breath…

Lisa Fields is the CEO and founder of Jude 3 Project, a leading apologetics organization dedicated to equipping the Black community with the tools to know what they believe and why they believe it. As a renowned Christian apologist, speaker, author, and film producer, she has been a driving force in shapi ng conversations on faith, theology, and culture.She is the author of two books When Faith Disappoints and When Heroes Fall. She has also contributed to two additional books, Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues and Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies.

I wanted to talk to Lisa about her unique way of doing apologetics, what it’s like being a black women in a field of study that primarily consists of white men, deconstruction and reconstruction, and how to navigate leadership scandal as both organizations and individuals.

• Lisa’s story
• Healthy and unhealthy ways to approach apologetics
• Deconstruction and reconstruction
• Healthy accountability for pastors and churches
• What to do when a leader falls
• The challenge of being a black woman in a white male-dominated space (apologetics)

• Show Sponsor: Dwell Bible
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• When Faith Disappoints by Lisa Fields
• When Heroes Fall by Lisa Fields
• Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
• Bullies And Saints by John Dickson
• People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck

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