Week 1 - Overview and Purpose

A cHRISTIAN

today’s worldWITNESS in

Tactics + sTRATEGIES

Relativism

The Bible

Pluralism

Islam

Sexual Revolution

Media

Training and Equipping Believers to Live Out a Confident Faith

What is our Goal?

What Job Has Jesus Given for Us to do?

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,

mATTHEW 28:18

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth…

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit..

mATTHEW 28:19

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you

mATTHEW 28:20

and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

mATTHEW 28:18-20

The Command: Make Disciples

Baptize them in the reality of GodTeach them to observe Jesus’ teachings

Abide in Jesus’ presence

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 2:18

and has given us the ministry of reconciliation

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself

2 Corinthians 2:19

not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us:

2 Corinthians 2:20

we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

Our Role: Ambassadors

We represent God as His ambassadorsOur goal is to see others reconciled

back to God

What Hinders us?

What obstacles do we face as we strive toward this goal?

3 Areas

The Challenge of:

Authority

“Who Makes the Rules?”

“Who Makes the Rules?”

“Who Makes the Rules?”

“Who Makes the Rules?”

The Challenge of:

Worldviews

“Whose Reality is Right?”

“Whose Reality is Right?”

Culture

“We can live however we want”

The Challenge Of:

AuthorityThe Challenge of:

“Who Makes the Rules?”

The Challenge of Authority - Part 1:

Relativism

“True for You, But Not For Me”

The Challenge of Authority - Part 2:

The Bible

“The Bible is just a book written by men”

WorldviewThe Challenge of:

“Whose Reality is Right?”

Pluralism

“All Roads Lead to God”

The Challenge of Worldviews - Part 1:

Islam

“There is no God but Allah”

The Challenge of Worldviews - Part 1:

CultureThe Challenge of:

“We can live however we want”

SEXUAL rEVOLUTION

“My body is mine and I can use it however I wish”

The Challenge Of Culture - part 1

Media

“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”

The Challenge Of Culture - part 2

What are these?

“True for You, But Not For Me”“The Bible is just a book written by men”

“All Roads Lead to God”“There is no God but Allah”

“My body is mine and I can use it however I wish”

“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”

IdeasHave

Consequences

“True for You, But Not For Me”“The Bible is just a book written by men”

“All Roads Lead to God”“There is no God but Allah”

“My body is mine and I can use it however I wish”

“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Hosea 4:6

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for

pulling down strongholds…

2 Corinthians 10:4

casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God…

2 Corinthians 10:5

bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and

acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2

MatterIdeas:

Shape familiesIdeas:

Shape CulturesIdeas:

Shape churchesIdeas:

Shape soulsIdeas:

Shape EterniesIdeas:

Shape usIdeas:

MatterIdeas: Greatly!

What is Our Plan?

Ambassadors

AmbassadorsKnowledge

WisdomCharacter

An accurately informed mind

An artful method of engagement

A warm and attractive manner

oUR foCUS

KnowledgeWisdomAn accurately

informed mindAn artful method

of engagement

tACTICSSkills for effective discussions

February: TacticsOur Plan

A Christian Witness in

Today’s World

Schedule of Topics

Feb 2 - Tactics (Part 1)Feb 9 - Discussion and Practice

Feb 16 - Tactics (Part 2)Feb 23 - Discussion and Practice

Our Plan

A Christian Witness in

Today’s World

Schedule of Topics

Mar 1 - RelativismMar 8 - Discussion and Practice

Mar 15 - The BibleFeb 22 - Discussion and Practice

March: aUTHORITY

Our Plan

A Christian Witness in

Today’s World

Schedule of Topics

Mar 29 - Break

March: aUTHORITY

Our Plan

A Christian Witness in

Today’s World

Schedule of Topics

Apr 5 - PluralismApr 12 - Discussion and Practice

Apr 19 - IslamApr 26 - Discussion and Practice

April: Worldviews

Our Plan

A Christian Witness in

Today’s World

Schedule of Topics

May 3 - Sexual RevolutionMay 10 - Discussion and Practice

May 17 - MediaApr 26 - Discussion and Wrap Up

May: Culture

Why do this?

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and

some pastors and teachers,

Ephesians 4:11

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the

edifying of the body of Christ

Ephesians 4:12

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the

stature of the fullness of Christ

Ephesians 4:13

that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about

with every wind of doctrine

Ephesians 4:14

by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

Ephesians 4:14

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is

the head—Christ—

Ephesians 4:15

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies,

according to the effective working by which every part does its share

Ephesians 4:16

causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:15

noT “bECOMING”We arEaMBASSADORS

We arE aMBASSADORS

hIM wELL, WITH:leT uS rePRESENT

An accurately informed mindAn artful method of engagement

A warm and attractive manner

sEE yOU next Week!

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A cHRISTIAN

today’s worldWITNESS in

Men & Women - Tuesday Nights - 7-8:30p - Begins Jan 26

Topics Include:Tactics + sTRATEGIES

RelativismThe Bible

PluralismIslam

Sexual RevolutionMedia