Christian youth are often confronted in schools by their teachers or classmates with anti-Christian arguments that shake their faith.
Many Christian adults are intimidated in the workplace by colleagues who claim superiority of knowledge.
Atheists claim that scientists have disproved the existence of God and that the Bible and Christianity are man-made myths, and thus irrelevant for our modern age.
Ethical and moral dilemmas are being faced at an all-time high, and the question of moral authority seems up for grabs.
The media propagates Christians as bigots for insisting on the exclusivity of salvation through Christ alone. Secular professors insist that the universe was not created by God and that human beings are a product of evolution emerging by descent from a single common ancestor.
Many people today deny the reality of miracles and the supernatural.
Unfortunately, many churches do not have ministries designed to equip Christians with information to help answer these challenges, build their own faith, or defend their faith in the present culture.
As a result, Christian youth will often leave the Church in their early adult years because they were not prepared to handle their own doubts or a barrage of information often presented to them in the university system that tends to go against their faith.
In general, many Christians feel ill-prepared or ill-equipped to defend their faith in a public setting or in personal evangelistic encounters, yet, the Bible tells us that we should always be prepared to give an answer for the reason of the hope that lies in us (1 Peter 3:15).
