Today’s attack on the traditional Christian faith and the lack of training focused on equipping Christians to give biblical answers that are backed up by modern science has led to the creation of the Natoinal Apologetics Training Center (NATC www.nationalatc.com).
Each of us has been given the assignment of not only presenting the gospel message but also explaining and defending the truth of that message. NATC’s goal is to train today’s Christian leaders and community to be able to give solid answers for the Christian faith. This is done from a biblical, historical, scientific, metaphysical, logical, and philosophical position. Christianity is unique in that it is the only faith system in the world which is based on historical facts that can be thoroughly investigated. There is plenty of evidence to support what we believe and we must be able to give a defense of those beliefs along with presenting the Gospel message. This can be done a number of ways. First, through textual apologetics, whereby we show the trustworthiness of the Bible; validating our claims. Second is through evidence-based apologetics; showing how scientific facts, archeology, logic and other rational evidence backs up biblical claims. Third is is through philosophy. This simply amounts to answering bad philosophical views with good philosophy. This means exposing the flawed reasoning that props up some of the more popular arguments against Christianity. (Does God exist? or Do I exist? Is there absolute truth?) In short, our goal is to equip leaders and all believers to "be ready always to give an answer to anyone who asks you about the hope you have." (1Peter 3:15). This translates to giving an "answer with reason".
The National Apologetics Training Center (www.nationalatc.com) was started in the Fall of 2007 out of this growing need in order to equip pastors, churches, and marketplace leaders [Para-church & corporations] with the ability to discern truth regarding the pervasive issues pressing our culture today; ranging from Universalism to Business Ethics.
The goal of NATC is to "train the trainer" in an effort to equip others with the ability to discern and understand truth in the complex, relativistic world of the 21st Century (1 Pet. 3:15; Phil 1:16).
