My Book Review Of: The 21 Toughest questions your kids will ask about Christianity by Alex McFarland

I would like to share another book review with you. This review is on the book, The 21 toughest questions your kids will ask about Christianity. In an added note of comfort, the title also continues; & how to answer them confidently.

                This work is well written by Alex McFarland, published by Tyndale House Publishers and is a Focus on the Family resource. 

                Before I continue into this review I want to begin by asking you a question. Two actually and the first is: Are you a Bible believing Christian who desires to pass on the truth and help win people to Christ as well as help strengthen fellow Christians in their belief? If so then continue on to the next question. The second question is as such: Do you have a child or children, nieces or nephews, grand children or any influence or contact with young people in school age that you love and care for and who know and believe in the Lord? If you answered yes to this question then this book is a book I fully recommend for you.

                There is a sad statistic today on how many young Christians are leaving Christian homes and entering the secular education and secular world on their own and are losing their faith. What is the cause of this loss of faith? It is not because we do not believe in a true magnificent God and creator of the world; it is neither because they never heard the truth nor where taught such truths while young, in school and living at home. The answer lies in a more spiritual world then ours. Satan will use every tactic he can to destroy ones belief and his first means to do this is doubt. Our young people today are simply not equipped and given the means to defend their faith, stand for what they believe and show how logically we can be assured of our faith.

                Alex McFarland has written this book specifically to fight this statistic. Yes, one could take many scholarly university level courses on defending the faith, however, not many are geared or adapt at this level of education. What about the father, mother or grandparent who desires to help nurture their child in truth and prepare them for the attacks of the secular world? This work, I will call “21 Questions” for short, could be your greatest help.

                Mr. McFarland wrote “21 Questions” in a very easy to understand format target to parents as well as children themselves. It is focused on children within upper grade school levels and as the title proposes it answers 21 questions. These questions that the book focuses on are common every day questions that young Christians face every day in the secular world. They are the very questions that Satan uses within non-believers to cast seeds of doubt into young believers minds.

                These questions include topics such as; God and Jesus, the validity of the Bible, Biblical contradictions, why is there evil in the world, why does God allow suffering and many more.

                Alex McFarland toned down what usually encompasses hours of seminary lectures into easy to understand answers for parents. With this work, “21 Questions” can help give you the encouragement, references, words and arguments to confidently answer those questions your children or young Christians may have.  This book may also spark the motivation in you to initiate these discussions with your children and loved ones as well even before those seeds of doubt are cast at them to help them prepare and build a defense and strengthen them in their own personal faith.

                Alex McFarland’s writing is out of his desire to help keep our Christian youth from simply becoming another statistic and to help promote a stronger more educated Christian faith within our youth. Not only will our youth grow stronger through his work, you just may as well find answers to questions you have had yourself. Why are these 21 questions so hard to answer? Many times its because we simply do not know the answers ourselves.

                “21 Questions” by Alex McFarland is among the top of the recommended books within my shelf. I recommend it for all parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, older siblings, mentors, youth directors and pastors alike. 

Thank you for reading.

C. Speakman