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This sermon will demonstrate how the starting point of evangelism 40 years ago was the simple plan of salvation. Belief in God, Christ, Heaven and Hell were givens. Atheists were rare and showed little interest in meddling with the belief of Christians. However, our society is more secular and increasingly doubts or disputes the aforementioned givens. Thus, we have a new starting point in sharing our faith... a Pre-Evangelism that is needed before we can give a simple gospel presentation. This sermon will also look at the shift that has occurred between atheism and the "new atheism" which is more strident and can be called anti-theism.
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iWitness Series intro
- 1. The new challenges we face in sharing the good news
- 2. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Series IntroLoading
- 3. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Familiar Methods of Evangelism
- 4. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist?
- 5. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? LAW ONE GOD LOVES YOU AND HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE.
- 6. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist?
- 7. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Step One God’s Purpose: Peace and Life God loves you and wants you to experience peace and life.
- 8. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The Bible says... "We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 Why don't most people have this peace and abundant life that God planned for us to have?
- 9. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist?
- 10. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The “Kennedy Questions” Do you know for sure that you are going to be with God in Heaven?
- 11. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The “Kennedy Questions” If God were to ask you, “Why should I let you into My Heaven?” what would you say?
- 12. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? New challenges we face in sharing our faith
- 13. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist?
- 14. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Unaffiliated 12.2% Agnostic 2.4% Atheist 1.6%
- 15. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The Bible Three in Four in U.S. Still See the Bible as Word of God
- 16. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The Bible 28% of Americans believe the Bible is the actual word of God and that it should be taken literally.
- 17. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The Bible 21% of Americans believe the Bible is an ancient book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.
- 18. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Heaven 33% of Americans do not believe that heaven is a real place.
- 19. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Hell 61% of Americans do believe that Hell is a real place. However, they believe that you have to be REALLY bad to go there.
- 20. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Part 1: Pre-Evangelism •Does God exist? •Is the God who exists the God of the Bible? •Is Jesus really God? •Is the Bible written by men or God?
- 21. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Part 2: Evangelism •Helping lost people embrace their true spiritual condition – SIN. •Helping modern thinkers deal with the offense of the cross.
- 22. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Part 2: Evangelism •Helping lost people unlearn the idea that there are many equally valid paths to God. •Helping lost people desire to become a part of God’s family, The Church.
- 23. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? The Challenge of a New and Growing Atheism
- 24. Theists and Atheists differ in their degree of certainty.
- 29. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? “Though the chorus of voices decrying belief in God has been humming in the ideological background for centuries, it seems to have reached a crescendo with the emergence of a movement that has been dubbed the new atheism. The trademark of this new and continuing brand of atheism is its vitriolic attack on religion. John M. Njoroge
- 30. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? To its advocates, religious beliefs are not only false; they are also dangerous and must be expunged from all corners of society. The pundits of the new atheism are not content to nail discussion theses on the door of religion; they are also busy delivering eviction notices to the allegedly atavistic elements of an otherwise seamlessly progressive atheistic evolution of Homo Sapiens.”
- 31. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Richard Dawkins Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Daniel Dennett
- 34. You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God! Daniel Dennett
- 35. “Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” Richard Dawkins
- 36. “In short, children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense, and we as a society have a duty to protect them from it…. Nicolas Humphrey
- 37. …So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon.” Nicolas Humphrey
- 38. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
- 39. Making the Case for God: Does God Exist? 1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect…
- 40. The new challenges we face in sharing the good news
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Bill Bright, the Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, wrote this little booklet in 1956. According to a 2003 article in Baptist Press, it has been printed in 200 languages and distributed to more than 2.5 billion people, making it the most widely disseminated religious booklet in history. Those claims may be inflated. A more likely number is 1.5 billion. That is still remarkable. Let me test this distribution. Someone tell me Law One…
- Bill Bright, the Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, wrote this little booklet in 1956. According to a 2003 article in Baptist Press, it has been printed in 200 languages and distributed to more than 2.5 billion people, making it the most widely disseminated religious booklet in history. Those claims may be inflated. A more likely number is 1.5 billion. That is still remarkable. Let me test this distribution. Someone tell me Law One…
- Step One God’s Purpose: Peace and Life God loves you and wants you to experience peace and life.
- The Bible says... "We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 Why don't most people have this peace and abundant life that God planned for us to have?
- The “Kennedy Questions” Do you know for sure that you are going to be with God in Heaven?
- If God were to ask you, “Why should I let you into My Heaven?” what would you say?
- New challenges we face in sharing our faith
- Growth of the religiously unaffiliated. I call these three groups the 3 A’s: Atheists, Agnostics and Apathetics.
- The Bible Three in Four in U.S. Still See the Bible as Word of God
- Twenty-eight percent of Americans believe the Bible is the actual word of God and that it should be taken literally. This is somewhat below the 38% to 40% seen in the late 1970s, and near the all-time low of 27% reached in 2001 and 2009. But about half of Americans continue to say the Bible is the inspired word of God, not to be taken literally -- meaning a combined 75% believe the Bible is in some way connected to God. About one in five Americans view the Bible in purely secular terms -- as ancient fables, legends, history, and precepts written by man -- which is up from 13% in 1976.
- Heaven 33% of Americans do not believe that heaven is a real place.
- About 6 in 10 Americans (61 percent) say hell is a real place. Black Protestants (86 percent) and Evangelicals (87 percent) are most likely to say hell is real. Catholics (66 percent) and Mainline Protestants (55 percent) are less convinced. Overall, Americans don’t seem too worried about sin or being sent to hell. Two-thirds (67 percent) say most people are basically good, even though everyone sins a little bit—an optimistic view of human nature at odds with traditional teaching about human sin. Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans (18 percent) say even small sins should lead to damnation, while about half (55 percent) say God has a wrathful side.
- Part 1: Pre-Evangelism Does God exist? Is the God who exists the God of the Bible? Is Jesus really God? Is the Bible written by men or God?
- Part 2: Evangelism Helping lost people embrace their true spiritual condition – SIN. Helping modern thinkers deal with the offense of the cross.
- Helping lost people unlearn the idea that there are many equally valid paths to God. Helping lost people desire to become a part of God’s family, The Church.
- The Challenge of a New and Growing Atheism
- Theists and Atheists differ in their degree of certainty.
- “Though the chorus of voices decrying belief in God has been humming in the ideological background for centuries, it seems to have reached a crescendo with the emergence of a movement that has been dubbed the new atheism. The trademark of this new and continuing brand of atheism is its vitriolic attack on religion.
- To its advocates, religious beliefs are not only false; they are also dangerous and must be expunged from all corners of society. The pundits of the new atheism are not content to nail discussion theses on the door of religion; they are also busy delivering eviction notices to the allegedly atavistic elements of an otherwise seamlessly progressive atheistic evolution of Homo Sapiens.”
- I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are version of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Christopher Hitchens.
- Some beliefs are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them.
- You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God! Daniel Dennett
- “Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” In his Voltaire Lectures to the British Humanist Association, Dawkins compares religious belief to a computer virus, an infection that spreads from parents to their children, or from some other charismatic infective agent.
- “In short, children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense, and we as a society have a duty to protect them from it….
- …So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon.”