Street Smarts, Gregory Koukl
Street Smarts, Gregory Koukl
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Street Smarts
Using Questions to Answer Christianity's Toughest Challenges

Author: Gregory Koukl

Narrator: Gregory Koukl, Tom Parks

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 09/12/2023


Synopsis

Read by the author.How to engage in productive conversations with those who challenge your Christian convictions.Gregory Koukl's best-selling book of practical apologetics, Tactics, wrote the game plan for discussing your Christian convictions with skeptics. In this follow-up, Koukl—a leader of clear-thinking Christianity—reveals the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values and provides step-by-step strategies to question and reveal those shortcomings.Street Smarts offers model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in persuasive conversations about hot-button issues like:RelativismThe trustworthiness of ScriptureThe claims of the GospelAbortionMarriage, sex, and genderThis book will teach you how to tackle those discussions that believers often avoid because they feel out of their element, vulnerable, or exposed. Lucid, well-organized, and easy-to-follow, Street Smarts provides a specific set of questions—the same questions Koukl uses in his own encounters—that are embedded in sample mini-dialogues that you can use to have fruitful debates with non-believers.

About Gregory Koukl

Gregory Koukl holds MA degrees with honors in both apologetics and philosophy. He's spoken on over 80 university campuses and hosted his own call-in radio talk show for over 33 years defending "Christianity worth thinking about." Greg is founder and president of Stand to Reason (str.org) and serves as adjunct professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University. He is the author of the award-winning The Story of Reality and the best-selling Tactics.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh on October 11, 2023

Classic Koukl. Thoughtful, practical, and immensely helpful. This felt like an updated version of Tactics, but with much more guidance on how to address the specific issues of our culture. My main criticism is that I wish he would have included something about the role of emotions, intuitions, and e......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on April 21, 2024

Koukl does a good job of explaining why a tactical approach to evangelism is wise ,not only for the evangelist, but also for their audience. Asking questions helps bring understanding to opposing arguments while also finding the weaknesses in them. This creates space not only for people to be fully......more

Goodreads review by Adam on September 24, 2023

I think a large chunk of this book will feel redundant if you've recently read (and/or are very familiar with) Tactics (by the same author), but if it's been a bit or you want to refresh your skills, then this book feels like a genuine sequel. You don't need to have read Tactics first, but I think i......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on April 10, 2024

Pretty repetitive of tactics, but honestly, I enjoyed it a lot better. It felt more balanced of being personable and honest instead of just trying to negotiate your way around opposing views. As someone heading into a new workplace that doesn’t share my morals and values as much this was much more h......more

Goodreads review by Antonio on March 22, 2025

Practical advice for dealing with current culture by Christians.......more