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As a young person, I was deep into apologetics. As an adult, I find that they don't help that much because people's real objections to Christianity are not typically logical ones. They're often emotional ones dressed up as logical ones.
You've gotta go through that emotional layer before anyone will even really listen to the logical one. Winning the logical one rarely opens the conversation to the emotional one. It just leaves everyone sour.
Yes, learn your faith, articulate it, be able to discuss hard things ... but don't think that alone helps. Until you learn to listen to someone's life story, you won't see what's really keeping them from following Jesus.
And until you can speak to that or care for that need or distance, you likely won't convince them to follow him either.
Related: this is why discipleship actually starts BEFORE conversion. But that's a conversation for a different day.
